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Fidelio-9 December 1948 Evening 7.00pm

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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 Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Joseph Shadwick
Cast
Jaquino
a porter 		Dennis Stephenson
Marcelline
Rocco's daughter 		Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Rocco
a gaoler 		David Franklin
Leonora
Florestan's wife, disguised as Fidelio, a manservant 		Sylvia Fisher
Don Pizarro
Governor of the prison 		Tom Williams
First Prisoner Charles Craig
Second Prisoner Edward Thomas
Florestan
a Prisoner of State 		Thorsteinn Hannesson
Don Fernando
the Minister 		Marian Nowakowski
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: Edward J Dent
Durations: Overture: 7.04-7.11pm, Act I scene 1: 7.11-7.36pm, Act I scene 2: 7.39-8.16pm, Act II scene 1: 8.39-9.10pm, Overture [Leonora No. 3]: 9.12-9.25pm, Act II scene 2: 9.26-9.39pm
Information source: Royal Opera House programme and stage manager's report for 9 December 1948 (in Royal Opera House Collections)