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The Mastersingers-21 January 1948 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Karl Rankl
Chorus Director Douglas Robinson
Concert Master Joseph Shadwick
Cast
Walter von Stolzing
a young knight 		Frank Sale
Eva
daughter of Pogner 		Victoria Sladen
Magdalene
her nurse 		Constance Shacklock
David
Sachs' apprentice 		Heddle Nash
Mastersingers
Pogner
a goldsmith 		David Franklin
Beckmesser
the town-clerk 		Grahame Clifford
Vogelgesang
a furrier 		Edgar Evans
Nachtigall
a tinsmith 		George Hancock
Sachs
a shoemaker 		Hans Hotter
Kothner
a baker 		Rhydderch Davies
Ortel
a soap-boiler 		Marian Nowakowski
Zorn
a pewterer 		Emlyn Jones
Moser
a tailor 		David Tree
Eisslinger
a grocer 		Anthony Pavilony
Foltz
a coppersmith 		Ronald Lewis
Schwarz
a stocking-weaver 		Charles Morris
Night Watchman Geraint Evans
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: Frederick Jameson
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 21 January 1948 (in Royal Opera House Collections)