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The Trojans-6 June 1957 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 Rafael Kubelik
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Cast
Part 1: The Capture of Troy
A Trojan Soldier Ronald Lewis
Cassandra
a Trojan prophetess, daughter of Priam 		Amy Shuard
Choroebus
her betrothed 		Jess Walters
Priam
King of Troy 		Forbes Robinson
Helenus
son of Priam 		Raymond Nilsson
Hecuba
wife of Priam 		Noreen Berry
Polyxena
daughter of Priam 		Marie Collier
Ascanius
son of Aeneas 		Joan Carlyle
Andromache
widow of Hector 		Wish Mary Hunt
Astyanax
her son 		Arthur Mackenzie
Pantheus
a Trojan priest 		Michael Langdon
Aeneas
a Trojan hero 		Jon Vickers
Ghost of Hector Joseph Rouleau
A Greek Captain Robert Allman
Soldiers of Greece and Troy, Citizens, Women, Children, Shepherds, Priestesses
Part 2: The Trojans at Carthage
Dido
Queen of Carthage 		Blanche Thebom
Anna
her sister 		Lauris Elms
Narbal
Dido's minister 		David Kelly
Iopas
a Carthaginian poet 		Richard Verreau
Ascanius Joan Carlyle
Pantheus Michael Langdon
Aeneas Jon Vickers
The God Mercury Alan Beale
Hylas
a young Trojan sailor 		Dermot Troy
First Soldier Ronald Lewis
Second Soldier Rhydderch Davies
Ghost of Cassandra Amy Shuard
Ghost of Choroebus Jess Walters
Ghost of Hector Joseph Rouleau
Ghost of Priam Forbes Robinson
Soldiers of Troy and Carthage, Courtiers, Hunters, Sailors, Naiads, Fauns, Satyrs, and Wood Nymphs The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Opera Ballet
Students of Chartesey Secondary School
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: E J Dent
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 6 June 1957 (in Royal Opera House Collections)