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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)