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The Midsummer Marriage-10 April 1968 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Colin Davis
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Strephon
one of the dancers 		Hendrik Davel
An Ancient
Priest of the Temple 		David Kelly
An Ancient
Priestess of the Temple 		Elizabeth Bainbridge
Mark
a young man of unknown parentage 		Alberto Remedios
Jenifer
his betrothed, a young girl 		Joan Carlyle
King Fisher
Jenifer's father, a business man 		Raimund Herincx
Bella
King Fisher's secretary 		Elizabeth Harwood
Jack
Bella's boy-friend, a mechanic 		Stuart Burrows
A Girl Dancer Lucette Aldous
Half Tipsy Man David Winnard
A Man Dancing Andrew Daniels
The Voice of Sosostris
a clairvoyante 		Helen Watts
Chorus of Mark's and Jenifer's friends The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Dancers attendant on the Ancients The Covent Garden Opera Ballet
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 10 April 1968 (in Royal Opera House Collections)

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