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Idomeneo, rè di Creta-9 March 1978 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: The Royal Opera
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Colin Davis
Chorus Master John Bacon
Leader John Brown
Cast
Ilia
daughter of King Priam of Troy, a Prisoner of War in Crete 		Yvonne Kenny
Idamante
son of Idomeneo 		Janet Baker
Elettra
daughter of Agamemnon, King of Argos 		Magdalena Cononovici
Idomeneo
King of Crete 		Stuart Burrows
Arbace
the King's confidant 		John Lanigan
High Priest of Nettuno Jonathan Summers
Voice of Nettuno Gwynne Howell
Cretan Girl Elena Davies
Cretan Girl Elizabeth Sikora
Cretan Girl Susan Maisey
Cretan Girl Anne Guthrie
Cretan Citizen David Maxwell-Harrison
Cretan Citizen Geoffrey Thompson
Trojan Prisoner Handel Owen
Trojan Prisoner Edward Sadler
Flower Girl Patricia Gunn
Flower Girl Anna Cooper
Cretan Citizens, Ministers, Priests, Guards, Servants, Sailors, Plague Victims; Elettra's attendants, Trojan Prisoners, Children The Royal Opera Chorus
Harpsichord John Constable
Students of Burlington Danes School
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Language: Italian
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 9 March 1978 (in Royal Opera House Collections)