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The Bohemian Girl-27 August 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 Norman Del Mar
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Thomas Matthews
Cast
Count Arnheim
of the Austrian Army 		Jess Walters
Florestein
his nephew 		Murray Dickie
Arline
his daughter as a child 		Yvonne Prestige
Buda
her Nurse 		Winifred Watkins
Thaddeus
of the Polish Army 		Anthony Marlowe
Devilshoof
Captain of the Gipsies 		Howell Glynne
A Gipsy Hubert Littlewood
An Austrian Soldier Hector Thomas
A Huntsman Alan Hobson
A Peasant James Brown
A Woman Servant Phyllis Simons
Arline
Count Arnheim's daughter twelve years later 		Roberta Peters
The Queen of the Gypsies Janet Howe
Another Gipsy Thomas Fletcher
Austrian Officers, Soldiers, Huntsmen, Peasants, Gipsies, Serving Women, Townsfolk and Guests The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Peasant Dancers, Entertainers at the Fair, Gipsy Dancers Dancers
Polish Soldiers, Hunt Grooms, Serving-men, Major-Domo, City Guard, Magistrate's Clerks Actors
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: Dennis Arundell
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 27 August 1951 (in Royal Opera House Collections)