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Manon-18 May 1950 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
Guillot des Morfontaine
a libertine 		Parry Jones
Bretigny
a libertine 		Ernest Davies
Pousette
Friend of Guillot 		Adele Leigh
Javotte
Friend of Guillot 		Iris Kells
Rosette
Friend of Guillot 		Monica Sinclair
The Innkeeper Kenneth Stevenson
Lescaut
Cousin to Manon 		Geraint Evans
Guard Hubert Littlewood
Guard Charles Morris
Manon Lescaut Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
The Chevalier des Grieux Walter Midgley
The Maidservant Elizabeth Goodall
The Count des Grieux
Father to the Chevalier 		Jess Walters
Gambler Ieuan Evans
Gambler Alan Hobson
Gambler Afan Davies
A Police Officer Eric Thornton
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: Norman Feasey
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 18 May 1950 (in Royal Opera House Collections)