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Kismet

Lavish Arabian Nights-style musical charting the mixed fortunes of a poor poet with supposed mystical powers. Based around the music of 19th-century composer Alexander Borodin.

Lavish musical charting the mixed fortunes of a poor poet with supposed mystical powers. The poet is pressured into using his special gifts to arrange a marriage between the son of a scheming vizier and a princess. But then fate - or kismet - plays its hand.

The memorable tunes, including And This is My Beloved and Stranger in Paradise, are based on the work of the 19th-century Russian composer Alexander Borodin.

1 hour, 48 minutes

Last on

Sat 20 May 2017 08:10
大象传媒 Two

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • Alexander Borodin

    Sands Of Time

    Performer: Howard Keel.
  • 00:04

    Alexander Borodin

    Rhymes Have I

    Orchestra: MGM Studio Orchestra. Performer: Howard Keel. Performer: Ann Blyth.
  • 00:10

    Alexander Borodin

    Fate

    Performer: Howard Keel.
  • 00:17

    MGM Studio Orchestra

    Bazaar of The Caravans

  • 00:21

    Alexander Borodin & Dolores Gray

    Not Since Nineveh

  • 00:32

    Alexander Borodin

    Baubles Bangles And Beads

    Performer: Ann Blyth. Performer: MGM Studio Chorus.
  • 00:39

    MGM Studio Orchestra

    I Am A Gardener

  • 00:40

    Alexander Borodin

    Stranger In Paradise

    Performer: Ann Blyth. Performer: Vic Damone.
  • 00:49

    Alexander Borodin

    Gesticulate

    Performer: Howard Keel.
  • 01:00

    Alexander Borodin & Dolores Gray

    Bored

  • 01:07

    MGM Studio Orchestra

    Fate (Reprise)

  • 01:09

    Alexander Borodin

    Night Of My Nights

    Performer: Vic Damone.
  • 01:15

    Alexander Borodin

    The Olive Tree

    Performer: Howard Keel.
  • 01:21

    Alexander Borodin

    Rahadlakum

    Orchestra: MGM Studio Orchestra. Performer: Dolores Gray. Performer: Howard Keel.
  • 01:29

    Alexander Borodin

    And This is My Beloved

    Performer: Howard Keel. Performer: Ann Blyth. Performer: Vic Damone.
  • 01:33

    MGM Studio Orchestra

    Innocent Amusement (Medley: and This Is My Beloved / Rahadlakum)

  • 01:39

    MGM Studio Orchestra

    Diwan Dances, Part One (Rahadlakum)

  • 01:41

    MGM Studio Orchestra

    Diwan Dances, Part Two (Night of My Nights)

  • 01:44

    MGM Studio Orchestra

    Drowning Scene/Sentence (Fate)

  • 01:48

    Howard Keel

    Sands of Time / End Title

Credits

Hajj Howard Keel
Marsinah Ann Blyth
Lalume Dolores Gray
The Caliph Vic Damone
Omar Monty Woolley
Wazir Sebastian Cabot
Director Vincente Minnelli
Producer Arthur Freed
Writer Charles Lederer
Writer Luther Davis
Writer Edward Knoblock

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