Beowulf
A musical epic by
Victor Davies (music)
and Betty Jane Wylie (libretto)

Featuring:

• The Holiday Festival Singers
• Players of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
• Rock Group
• and soloists.

A three-record recording, based on the Anglo-Saxon Poem.

• A rock opera based on the original Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem originally produced as a triple album with full orchestra , chorus and soloists and released in Canada on Daffodil Records
• Libretto - Betty Jane Wylie
• AMAS Repertory Theatre in New York, show case production, 1977
• Director/Choreographer - Voight Kempson
• Re-released in 1983 on Leap Frog Records
• 1111/433/timp, perc (2)/piano - synth. and acoustic, guitar - electric and acoustic, strings

"Though there are mythical monsters in the story, BEOWULF is not a fairy tale. Beowulf and King Hrothgar really existed. Beowulf's visit took place in 515 AD, the hall Heorot burned to the ground in 520 AD and Hrothgar died in 525 AD. So we know the events, both real and imagined, took place in the sixth century...