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Carmen-2 November 1953 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 John Pritchard
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Morales
a sergeant 		Ronald Lewis
Micaela
a peasant girl 		Frances Yeend
Zuniga
the lieutenant of the Dragoons 		Michael Langdon
Don José
a corporal 		James Johnston
Carmen
gipsy girl 		Nell Rankin
Frasquita
gipsy girl 		Joan Sutherland
Mercedes
gipsy girl 		Barbara Howitt
Lillas Pastia
the landlord of a tavern 		Hamish MacMillan
Escamillo
a bull-fighter 		Marko Rothmüller
Dancairo
leaders of a band of gipsy smugglers 		Edmund Donlevy
Remendado
leaders of a band of gipsy smugglers 		David Tree
Principal Dancer Harold Turner
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Students of Chartesey Secondary School
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: French
Durations: Act I: 7.04-7.49pm, Act II: 8.13-8.50pm, Act III: 9.13-9.49pm, Act IV: 10.10-10.29pm
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 2 November 1953 (in Royal Opera House Collections)