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Salome-11 November 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
Cast
Narraboth
A young Syrian, Captain of the Guard 		Edgar Evans
Page to Herodias Jean Watson
First Soldier Norman Walker
Second Soldier Geraint Evans
Jokanaan (John the Baptist) Kenneth Schon
A Cappadocian Kenneth Stevenson
Salome
Daughter of Herodias 		Ljuba Welitsch
A Slave Vera Hoddinott
Herod
King of Judea 		Franz Lechleitner
Herodias
Wife of Herod 		Constance Shacklock
First Jew Murray Dickie
Second Jew David Tree
Third Jew Dennis Stephenson
Fourth Jew Emlyn Jones
Fifth Jew Rhydderch Davies
First Nazarene Marian Nowakowski
Second Nazarene Thorsteinn Hannesson
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 11 November 1949 (in Royal Opera House Collections)