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Peter Grimes-14 November 1953 Evening 7.00pm

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Reginald Goodall
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Peter Grimes
a fisherman 		Peter Pears
Ellen Orford
the Borough Schoolmistress 		Sylvia Fisher
Auntie
Landlady of 'The Boar' 		Jean Watson
Her Niece Blanche Turner
Her Niece Arda Mandikian
Captain Balstrode
a retired sea captain 		Geraint Evans
Mrs. Sedley
a widow 		Valetta Iacopi
Swallow
a lawyer and magistrate 		Howell Glynne
Ned Keene
the apothocary 		Edmund Donlevy
Bob Boles
a methodist fisherman 		Raymond Nilsson
The Rector John Lanigan
Hobson
the village carrier 		Rhydderch Davies
Dr. Thorp Leonard Law
The Boy
Peter Grimes' new apprentice 		Raymond Edmonds
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Durations: Prologue and Act I: 7.03-7.58pm, Act II: 8.14-9.04pm, Act III: 9.23-10.03pm
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 14 November 1953 (in Royal Opera House Collections)