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Tosca-29 April 1959 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor John Pritchard
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Cesare Angelotti
an escaped political prisoner 		Michael Langdon
A Sacristan Forbes Robinson
Mario Cavaradossi
a famous painter and republican 		Charles Craig
Floria Tosca
a famous singer 		Leonie Rysanek
Baron Scarpia
Chief of Police 		Otakar Kraus
Spoletta
a Police Agent 		David Tree
Sciarrone
a Gendarme 		David Allen
A Shepherd Boy Josephine Veasey
A Gaoler Rhydderch Davies
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Children from Edith Cavell Secondary School
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: Italian
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 29 April 1959 (in Royal Opera House Collections)