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Rigoletto-29 August 1947 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Karl Rankl
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Joseph Shadwick
Cast
The Duke of Mantua Kenneth Neate
Borsa
gentleman of the court 		Edgar Evans
Marullo
gentleman of the court 		Ernest Davies
Count Ceprano
gentleman of the court 		Rhydderch Davies
Countess Ceprano Anne Finley
Rigoletto
court jester 		Paolo Silveri
Count Monterone George Hancock
Gilda
Rigoletto's daughter 		Leni Lynn
Giovanna
her nurse 		Lilian Simmons
A Page Catherine Harding
An Usher Ronald Lewis
Sparafucile
a hired assassin 		David Franklin
Maddalena
his sister 		Edith Coates
Dancer Joan Cadzow
Dancer Penelope Asserson
Dancer Mary Drage
Dancer Ann Horne
Dancer Josephine Corry
Dancer Dorothy Clarke
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: Natalia Macfarren
Information source: Theatre Royal, Glasgow programme for 29 August 1947 (in Royal Opera House Collections)