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Benvenuto Cellini-19 March 1969 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: The Royal Opera
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor John Pritchard
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Balducci
Papal Treasurer 		Michael Rippon
Teresa
his daughter 		Elizabeth Vaughan
Benvenuto Cellini
Master goldsmith 		Nicolai Gedda
Francesco
one of Cellini's chief assistants 		David Lennox
Bernardino
one of Cellini's chief assistants 		George Macpherson
Fieramosca
sculptor to the Pope 		Robert Massard
An Innkeeper John Lanigan
Ascanio
Cellini's boy apprentice 		Yvonne Minton
Pompeo
a professional swordsman, friend of Fieramosca 		Bryan Drake
Pope Clement VII Joseph Rouleau
Tarantella Dancer Susan Carlton
Tarantella Dancer Keith Martin
Harlequin Paul Benson
Columbine Sally Ashby
Pasquarello Jonathan Bray
King Midas Max Hanson
Members of the Pope's suite, artisans, pupils, journeymen and friends of Cellini, actors and buffoons, dancers, servants, guards, people of Rome The Royal Opera Chorus
The Royal Opera Ballet
Children from Tollington Park School
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Language: French
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 19 March 1969 (in Royal Opera House Collections)