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The Mastersingers-23 November 1948 Evening 6.00pm

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor Karl Rankl
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Joseph Shadwick
Cast
Eva
daughter of Pogner 		Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Magdalene
her nurse 		Constance Shacklock
Pogner
a goldsmith 		David Franklin
Walter von Stolzing
a young knight 		Set Svanholm
David
Sachs' apprentice 		Murray Dickie
Mastersingers
Sachs
a shoemaker 		Tom Williams
Beckmesser
the town clerk 		Grahame Clifford
Kothner
a baker 		Rhydderch Davies
Nachtigal
a tinsmith 		Ernest Davies
Zorn
a pewterer 		Emlyn Jones
Eisslinger
a grocer 		Dennis Stephenson
Vogelgesang
a furrier 		Edgar Evans
Moser
a tailor 		David Tree
Foltz
a coppersmith 		Ronald Lewis
Ortel
a soap-boiler 		Marian Nowakowski
Schwartz
a stocking-weaver 		Charles Morris
Night-Watchman Geraint Evans
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: Frederick Jameson
Durations: Act I: 6.06-7.21pm, Act II: 7.43-8.40pm, Act III scene 1: 9.00-10.04pm, Act III scene 2: 10.06-10.40pm
Information source: Royal Opera House programme and stage manager's report for 23 November 1948 (in Royal Opera House Collections)