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Gawain-30 May 1991 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: The Royal Opera
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Elgar Howarth
Chorus Director Robin Stapleton
Director of The Sixteen Harry Christophers
Leader John Brown
Cast
Morgan le Fay
Arthur's half-sister, Gawain's aunt 		Marie Angel
Lady de Hautdesert
wife of Bertilak 		Elizabeth Laurence
Arthur
King of Logres 		Richard Greager
Guinevere
Arthur's wife 		Penelope Walmsley-Clark
A Fool Omar Ebrahim
Agravain
a knight; Gawain's brother; Arthur's nephew by his half-sister Belisent 		Clive Bayley
Ywain
a knight; Arthur's nephew by his half-sister Brimesent 		Lynton Atkinson
Gawain
a knight; Arthur's nephew by his half-sister Belisent; brother of Agravain 		François Le Roux
Bishop Baldwin
Arthur's confessor and spiritual guide 		Kevin Smith
Bedevere
a knight 		David Sawer
The Green Knight/Bertilak de Hautdesert John Tomlinson
The Royal Opera Chorus
The Sixteen
Actors
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Notes: Performance dedicated to the memory of Katharine Wilkinson, Press Officer of The Royal Opera.
Language: English
Durations: Act I: 88 minutes, Interval: 30 minutes, Act II: 85 minutes
Information source: Royal Opera House cast sheet for 30 May 1991 (in Royal Opera House Collections)