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The Midsummer Marriage-27 January 1955 Evening

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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
Strephon
one of the dancers 		Pirmin Trecu
An Ancient
Priest of the Temple 		Michael Langdon
An Ancient
Priestess of the Temple 		Edith Coates
Mark
a young man of unknown parentage 		Richard Lewis
Jenifer
his betrothed, a young girl 		Joan Sutherland
King Fisher
Jenifer's father, a business man 		Otakar Kraus
Bella
King Fisher's secretary 		Adele Leigh
Jack
Bella's boy-friend, a mechanic 		John Lanigan
A Voice Monica Sinclair
A Girl Dancer Julia Farron
Half Tipsy Man Gordon Farrall
A Man Dancing Andrew Daniels
Sosostris
a clairvoyante 		Oralia Dominguez
Chorus of Mark's and Jenifer's friends The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Dancers attendant on the Ancients The Covent Garden Opera Ballet
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 27 January 1955 (in Royal Opera House Collections)