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Tosca-23 June 1951 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 Peter Gellhorn
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Thomas Matthews
Cast
Cesare Angelotti
an escaped political prisoner 		Ernest Davies
A Sacristan Geraint Evans
Mario Cavaradossi
a famous painter and republican 		James Johnston
Floria Tosca
a famous singer 		Ljuba Welitsch
Baron Scarpia
Chief of Police 		Marko Rothmüller
Spoletta
a Police Agent 		David Tree
Sciarrone
a Gendarme 		Ronald Lewis
A Shepherd Boy Brian Ettridge
A Gaoler Michael Langdon
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: W Beatty-Kingston
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 23 June 1951 (in Royal Opera House Collections)