Mañana

Mañana (1956)

TV MovieMusicDrama

Broadcast on 1 February 1956, composer Arthur Benjamin's Mañana was the first opera commissioned by the BBC. "The small Andalusian village comes to life in a sequence of short scenes introducing its inhabitants: a group of gossiping washerwomen, the prying eyes of the old rich widow looking down from her window, the neglected boy playing in the square, the pickpocket at work, the lazy man stretched out snoring in the midday sun, the Wise Man who mends china and writes letters for the poor and is fed in turn by the community. What will happen on the day when his food is given to a boy wrongly imprisoned in the local gaol and the Wise Man goes hungry? His anger is such that he prophesies the end of the world for mañana (tomorrow morning) and the credulous village repents and makes ready to meet its doom." —George R. Foa

Director: George R. Foa

Casts

	Frederick Sharp as The Wise Man
	Edith Coates as The Widow
	Heather Harper as Luisita
	Carlos Montes as Pedro
	Naida Labay as Conchita
	Patricia Kern as Pia
	Sheila Young as Third woman
	Ivor Evans as The Mayor
	William Dickie as The Innkeeper
	Tani as Dolores
	Ronald Lewis as Jose
	David Langford as Carlos
	Edmund Donlevy as The Pickpocket
	Niven Miller as The Lazy Man
	David Oddie as First Villager
	Brian Douglas as Second Villager
	Julian Bream as Guitar Player
	Gita de la Fuente as Flamenco Singer

Crew