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Madam Butterfly-17 January 1950 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Warwick Braithwaite
Leader Joseph Shadwick
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Cast
Lieutenant B F Pinkerton
US Navy 		Kenneth Neate
Goro
a Marriage Broker 		David Tree
Suzuki
servant to Madam Butterfly 		Monica Sinclair
Sharpless
US Consul at Nagasaki 		Tom Williams
Madam Butterfly
the Japanese bride of Pinkerton 		Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
The Bonze
Butterfly's uncle, a priest 		Rhydderch Davies
The Imperial Commissioner Ronald Firmager
The Official Registrar Hubert Littlewood
Prince Yamadori
a wealthy suitor 		Ernest Davies
Trouble
Butterfly's child 		Rita Richards
Kate Pinkerton
Pinkerton's American wife 		Adele Leigh
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: R H Elkin
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 17 January 1950 (in Royal Opera House Collections)