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Madama Butterfly-5 January 1968 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor James Lockhart
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Lieut. F. Benjamin Pinkerton
U.S. Navy 		Jean Bonhomme
Goro
a Marriage Broker 		Robert Bowman
Suzuki
servant to Madama Butterfly 		Elizabeth Bainbridge
Sharpless
U.S. Consul at Nagasaki 		Delme Bryn-Jones
Cio-Cio-San
known as Madama Butterfly, the Japanese bride of Pinkerton 		Elizabeth Vaughan
The Imperial Commissioner Glynne Thomas
The Official Registrar Keith Raggett
The Bonze
Butterfly's uncle, a priest 		Victor Godfrey
Prince Yamadori
a wealthy suitor 		David Winnard
Kate Pinkerton
Pinkerton's American wife 		Elizabeth Shelley
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: Italian
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 5 January 1968 (in Royal Opera House Collections)