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Tosca-11 July 1956 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor Argeo Quadri
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Cesare Angelotti
an escaped political prisoner 		Michael Langdon
A Sacristan Melchiorre Luise
Mario Cavaradossi
a famous painter and republican 		Ferruccio Tagliavini
Floria Tosca
a famous singer 		Zinka Milanov
Baron Scarpia
Chief of Police 		Scipio Colombo
Spoletta
a Police Agent 		David Tree
Sciarrone
a Gendarme 		Ronald Lewis
A Shepherd Boy Noreen Berry
A Gaoler Rhydderch Davies
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Children from Chartesey Secondary School
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: Italian
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 11 July 1956 (in Royal Opera House Collections)