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Carmen-29 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
Morales
a sergeant 		Rhydderch Davies
Micaela
a peasant girl 		Blanche Turner
Zuniga
the captain of the Dragoons 		Ernest Davies
Don José
a corporal 		Franz Vroons
Carmen
gipsy girl 		Martha Mödl
Frasquita
gipsy girl 		Audrey Bowman
Mercedes
gipsy girl 		Rosina Raisbeck
Lillas Pastia
the landlord of a tavern 		J Arthur Kellet
Escamillo
a bull-fighter 		Geraint Evans
Dancairo
leader of a band of gipsy smugglers 		Grahame Clifford
Remendado
leader of a band of gipsy smugglers 		David Tree
Members of the Sadler's Wells Ballet School
ACT II
Tavern Dancer Judy Laraman
Tavern Dancer Dorothy Fraser
Tavern Dancer Vera Winton
ACT IV
Pas de Huit Shirley Bishop
Pas de Huit Judy Laraman
Pas de Huit Vera Winton
Pas de Huit June Laverick
Pas de Huit Ronald Plaisted
Pas de Huit Charles Lisner
Pas de Huit Ivan Dragadze
Pas de Huit William Brown
Soloist Moyra Fraser
Pas de Quatre Brenda Taylor
Pas de Quatre Karen Bliss
Pas de Quatre Annette Page
Pas de Quatre Dorothy Fraser
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Children from the Italia Conti Stage School
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: Hermann Klein
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 29 October 1949 (in Royal Opera House Collections)