The Merry Widow-23 October 1997 Evening

Opera: Performance details

Company: The Royal Opera
Venue: Shaftesbury Theatre, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Dietfried Bernet
Chorus Director Terry Edwards
Leader Peter Manning
Cast
Baron Mirko Zeta
Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris
Claudio Desderi
Valencienne
his wife
Juliette Galstian
Count Danilo Danilowitsch
diplomatic attaché
Thomas Allen
Hanna Glawari Felicity Lott
Camille de Rosillon Luca Canonici
Vicomte Cascada Philip Sheffield
Raoul de St Brioche Stephen Rooke
Njegus
clerk at the Embassy
David Ross
Kromow
Pontevedrian chief of staff
John Winfield
Olga
his wife
Glenys Groves
Bogdanowitsch
Pontevedrian consul
Bryan Secombe
Sylviane
his wife
Anna Cooper
Pritschitsch
retired Pontevedrian colonel
Richard Hazell
Praskowia
his wife
Elizabeth Sikora
First Grisette Joanne Darnell
Second Grisette Susana Garcia
Third Grisette Wendy Griffin
Fourth Grisette Georgina Harrison
Fifth Grisette Bernadette Iglich
Sixth Grisette Donna Tresigne
A Waiter Greg Campbell
Parisian and Pontevedrian society, servants The Royal Opera Chorus
Dancers
Actors
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Language: English
Translator: Jeremy Sams
Durations: Act I: 50 minutes, Interval: 20 minutes, Acts II and III: 85 minutes
Information source: The Royal Opera programme for 23 October-11 November 1997 (in Royal Opera House Collections)

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