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Parsifal-19 April 1960 Evening 6.00pm

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor Heinrich Hollreiser
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Gurnemanz Gottlob Frick
First Esquire Jeannette Sinclair
Second Esquire Janet Coster
First Knight Edgar Evans
Second Knight Rhydderch Davies
Kundry Grace Hoffman
Amfortas Sigurd Bjorling
Third Esquire Robert Bowman
Fourth Esquire John Dobson
Parsifal Jon Vickers
Titurel Forbes Robinson
Klingsor Otakar Kraus
Flower Maiden Joan Carlyle
Flower Maiden Judith Pierce
Flower Maiden Josephine Veasey
Flower Maiden Jeannette Sinclair
Flower Maiden Mary Wells
Flower Maiden Margreta Elkins
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Boys from the Choir of St. Margaret's Church (Westminster)
Children from Westminster City School
Children from Edith Cavell Secondary School
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: German
Durations: Prelude and Act I: 6.01-7.51pm, Act II: 8.22-9.28pm, Act III: 9.57-11.16pm
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 19 April 1960 (in Royal Opera House Collections)