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Madama Butterfly-23 October 1961 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor Maurits Sillem
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Lieutenant F.B. Pinkerton
U.S. Navy 		Charles Craig
Goro
a Marriage Broker 		Robert Bowman
Suzuki
servant to Madama Butterfly 		Josephine Veasey
Sharpless
U.S. Consul at Nagasaki 		Louis Quilico
Madama Butterfly
the Japanese bride of Pinkerton 		Marie Collier
The Imperial Commissioner Glynne Thomas
The Official Registrar Keith Raggett
The Bonze
Butterfly's uncle, a priest 		Victor Godfrey
Prince Yamadori
a wealthy suitor 		Joseph Ward
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 23 October 1961 (in Royal Opera House Collections)