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Aida-5 October 1949 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor Warwick Braithwaite
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Joseph Shadwick
Cast
Ramphis
the High Priest 		Norman Walker
Radames
Captain of the Guards 		Franz Lechleitner
Amneris
the Pharaoh's daughter 		Edith Coates
Aida
the slave of Amneris 		Ljuba Welitsch
The Pharaoh Marian Nowakowski
A Messenger Dennis Stephenson
A Priestess Rosina Raisbeck
Amonasro
King of Ethiopia 		Jess Walters
Premiere Danseuse Moyra Fraser
Corps de Ballet Students of the Sadler's Wells School of Ballet
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: H Hersee
Information source: Royal Opera House Programme for 5 October 1949 (in Royal Opera House Collections)