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The Olympians-29 September 1949 Evening

Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Karl Rankl
Leader Joseph Shadwick
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Cast
The Curé
An elderly priest 		Murray Dickie
Madame Bardeau
Landlady of the "Golden Duck" 		Edith Coates
Jean
A porter at the "Golden Duck" 		Ronald Lewis
Joseph Lavatte
A rich bourgeois 		Howell Glynne
Hector de Florac
A young poet 		James Johnston
Madeleine
Lavatte's daughter 		Shirley Russell
Alfred
A night watchman in Lavatte's house 		Rhydderch Davies
THE OLYMPIANS a troupe of strolling players
Mercury Robert Helpmann
Venus Moyra Fraser
Bacchus Thorsteinn Hannessonn
Mars David Franklin
Diana Margherita Grandi
Jupiter Kenneth Schon
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Students of the Sadler's Wells School of Ballet
Language: English
Information source: Royal Opera House Programme for 29 September 1949 (in Royal Opera House Collections)