Menu

Rigoletto-7 July 1956 Evening

First| Previous| 27 of 31 performances| Next| Last| List All

Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor Argeo Quadri
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
The Duke of Mantua Nicola Filacuridi
Borsa
Gentleman of the Court 		Dermot Troy
Marullo
Gentleman of the Court 		Ronald Lewis
Count Ceprano
Gentleman of the Court 		Rhydderch Davies
Countess Ceprano Joan Carlyle
Rigoletto
the Court Jester 		Tito Gobbi
Count Monterone Robert Allman
Sparafucile
a hired assassin 		Frederick Dalberg
Gilda
Rigoletto's daughter 		Hilde Gueden
Giovanna
her nurse 		Josephine Veasey
A Page Patricia du Heaume
An Usher Leonard Law
Maddalena
Sparafucile's sister 		Barbara Howitt
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Opera Ballet
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: Italian
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 7 July 1956 (in Royal Opera House Collections)