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Madama Butterfly-13 January 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 Bryan Balkwill
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Lieutenant F.B. Pinkerton
U.S. Navy 		Charles Craig
Goro
a Marriage Broker 		David Tree
Suzuki
servant to Madama Butterfly 		Josephine Veasey
Sharpless
U.S. Consul at Nagasaki 		Jess Walters
Madama Butterfly
the Japanese bride of Pinkerton 		Sena Jurinac
The Imperial Commissioner Ronald Firmager
The Official Registrar Keith Raggett
The Bonze
Butterfly's uncle, a priest 		Joseph Rouleau
Prince Yamadori
a wealthy suitor 		David Allen
Kate Pinkerton
Pinkerton's American wife 		Margreta Elkins
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: Italian
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 13 January 1959 (in Royal Opera House Collections)