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Tony Locantro Programmes – Opera

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Theatre Date Performance Details

Arts Theatre Cambridge English Opera Group

9-14 Nov 1964 The Turn of the Screw Benjamin Britten Conductors: Bryan Balkwill, Benjamin Britten Robert Tear, April Cantelo

Arts Theatre Cambridge English Opera Group

9-14 Nov 1964 Albert Herring Benjamin Britten Conductor: Bryan Balkwill April Cantelo, Silvia Fisher, Janet Baker Kenneth Macdonald, Joan Clarkson

Arts Theatre Cambridge

1966 Raymond and Agnes Edward Loder Conductor: David Grant (Brochure)

Barber Institute of Fine Arts

1972 Rodelinda George Frederic Handel Conductor: Ivor Keys Josephine Barstow, Bryan Drake

Barbican Theatre Les Arts Florissants

2006 Hercules Handel Director: William Christie William Shimell, Joyce DiDonato

Basilica Opera Illustrated Booklet Touring Bradford, Leicester, Sunderland, Torquay, Stockton

1968-69 Barber of Seville, Tales of Hoffmann, Die Fledermaus, Il Trovatore

Brighton Festival London Symphony

1983 La Gioconda Ponchielli - Boito Conductor: Anton Guadagno Ghena Dimitrova, Placido Domingo

Carl Rosa Opera Princess Theatre

c1959 Details below under Princes Theatre

Chisinau National Opera (Moldova) New

2007 Aida (Verdi) Conductor: Nicolae Dohotaru Natalia Margarit, Patrizio Ha

Wimbledon Theatre

Chisinau National Opera (Moldova) Hackney Empire

2004 Tosca (Puccini) Natalia Margarit, Vladamir Dragos

College of North West London, Sir Richard Eyre Theatre

2000 Carmen (Bizet) Student production and semi-professional

English National Opera London Coliseum 10 Yrs. Anniversary

22 Aug 1978 Seven Deadly Sins of Ordinary People Weill/Brecht Gianni Schicchi, Puccini Conductor: Lionel Friend

English National Opera London Coliseum

10 Feb 1982 The Flying Dutchman Richard Wagner Conductors: Mark Elder, Stephen Barlow Norman Bailey, Phillip Joll, Josephine Barstow, Katherine Pring

English National Opera ENO Season Booklet

2004 London Coliseum

English National Opera London Coliseum

2004 Tosca Giaccomo Pucinni Conductor: Noel Davies Claire Rutter, Julien Gavin

English National Opera With Huston Grand Opera & Los Angeles Music Centre Opera

2006 The Mikado (G. & S.) Conductor: Simon Lee Richard Angas, Keith Jameson

Pro Musica Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

1983 Medea Luigi Cherubini Conductor: Roberto Abbado Grace Bumbry, Dimitri Kavrakos

Frankfurt City Opera (Sadler’s Wells Theatre)

Undated Salome, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Zar und Zimmermann, Fidelio

Brochure

Scottish Opera King’s Theatre, Glasgow Scotland

15 May 1968 Gotterdammerung Richard Wagner Conductor: Alexander Gibson Berit Lindholm, Ticho Parly, John Shaw, Louis Hendrikx

Scottish Opera Spring Plan Brochure Booking Form

12 Mar- 8 Jun 1973

The Coronation of Poppea, Don Pasquale, Marriage of Figaro, Turn of the Screw, Tristan and Isolde, Peter Grimes

La Scala Opera Theatre Milan, Italy

7 Dec 1971 Simon Boccanegra Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Claudio Abbado Piero Cappuccilli, Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Felice Schiavi

Teatro Regio Parma, Italy

26 Dec 1968 Stiffelio Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Peter Maag Gastone Limarilli, Angeles Gulin Dominguez, Beniamino Prior, Antonio Zerbini, Walter Alberti, Mario Carlin

L’Opera de Monte Carlo Conductors: David Garforth, Gianfranco Masini, Lawrence Foster, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Alain Guingal, Booking Brochure

1991-92 The Secret of Susanna (Wolf-Farrari) Verdiana (Verdi) Roberto Devereux (Donizetti), The Flying Dutchman (Wagner), A Secret of Importance (Rendine), Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) Don Quixote (Massenet)

Theatre National de L’Opera Comique Paris

30 May 1965 Mignon Ambroise Thomas Remy Corazza, Andre Vessieres

Theatre National de L’Opera Paris

3 Jun 1966 Der Rosenkavallier Richard Strauss Elizabeth Schwatzkopf, Kurt Bohme

Theatre National de L’Opera Paris

4 Jan 1969 The Damnation of Faust Hector Berlioz Denise, Monteil, Paul Finel, Jean-Pierre Hurteau

Metropolitan 22 Apr 1972 Part 1: Conductor James Levine

Opera Lincoln Center, New York Gala Performance for Sir Rudolf Bing Benefit for Opera Benevolent Fund

Roberta Peters, Sherrill Milnes, Teresa Stratas, Thomas Stewart, Paul Plishka Ruggero Raimondi, Montserrat Caballe Placido Domingo Conductor: Richard Bonynge Anna Moffo, Martina Arroyo Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti Part 2: Conductors: Richard Bonynge James Levine, F. Molinari-Pradelli, Cornell MacNeill, Dorothy Kirsten, Fernando Corena, Ezio Flagello, Grace Bumbry, Mario Sereni, Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, Leontyne Price Part 3: Conductors: Kurt Adler, Max Rudolf, Karl Bohm Regina Resnick, James McCracken, Jon Vickers, Birgit Nilsson

Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center, New York Production: Franco Zeffirelli, Costumes: Peter Hall

25 Mar 1972 Otello Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Karl Bohm James McCracken, Teresa Zylis-Gara, Sherrill Milnes, Shirley Love, Paul Plishka Robert Goodloe

Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center, New York

6 Nov 1972 La Boheme Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Henry Lewis Anna Moffo, Mario Sereni, Richard Tucker, Collette Boky, Robert Goodloe


7 Nov 1972 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Choreography: Kathrine Dunham Gabriella Tucci, Grace Bumbry, Franco Corelli, Robert Merrill


8 Nov 1972 Lucia di Lammermoor Gaetano Donizetti Conductor: Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Renata Scotto, Paul Plishka, Richard Tucker, Leo Goeke, Carlotta Ordassy

Princess Theatre Carl Rosa Opera

Undated Manon Lescaut Giacomo Puccini Director: Arthur Hammond Estelle Valery, Brychan Powell

Royal Albert Hall 24 Feb 2002 Carmen Bizet Conductor: Peter Robinson Imelda Drum, John Uhlenhopp, Rosalind Sutherland

Sadler’s Wells Glyndebourne on Tour (also – Die Fledermaus Cosi fan tutti)

2006 Turn of the Screw Benjamin Britten Conductor: Edward Gardner Daniel Norman, Kate Royal

(Royal Academy of Music 150th Anniversary)

1972 Belisario Donizetti Conductor: Steuart Bedford Ian Caddy, Susan Lees, Michael Bulman

(New Opera Company)

1970 Cardillac Paul Hindemith Conductor: Leon Lovett John Cameron, Frank Olegario, Anne Pashley

(London Opera Centre)

1970 (The) Coronation of Poppea Monteverdi Conductor: James Robertson Linda Gray, Neil McKinnon, Joyce McCrindle

(Sadler’s Wells Operetta)

Undated Orpheus in the Underworld Offenbach Conductor: Alexander Faris. Director: Wendy Toye. (Brochure – no cast shown)

(Rostrum Limited)

1962(?) Our Man in Havana Malcolm Williamson Conductor: James Loughran April Cantelo, Owen Brannigan

(London Opera Centre)

1969 Il Tabaro & Gianni Schicchi Puccini Conductor: James Robertson Edward Sadler, Donna Faye Carr

(London Opera Group)

1969 (The) Turn of the Screw Benjamin Britten Conductor: Steuart Bedford Jean Buck, John Winfield

Sadler’s Wells Opera Season

1957-58 1965-66

Booking Brochures

Sadler’s Wells Ballet

26 Jul 1945 Matinee

Coppelia Delibes (see: Ballet listing)

Sadler’s Wells 23 Feb 1957 The Pearl Fishers Bizet Conductor: Alexander Gibson Patricia Howard, Robert Thomas, John

Hargreaves, David Ward

Sadler’s Wells 5 Nov 1957 The Telephone, Bluebeard’s Castle, Gianni Schicchi (Gian-Carlo Menotti, Bela Bartok, Giacomo Puccini) Conductors: Michael Moores, Gerald Gover, Leo Quayle June Bronhill, Denis Dowling, David Ward, Victoria Elliott, Frederick Sharp, Patricia Howard, Olwen Price, Gwent Lewis

Sadler’s Wells Carl Rosa Opera

24 Apr 1958 Faust Charles Gounod Conductor: Edward Renton Brychan Powell, Stanislav Pieczora, Estelle Valery, Margreta Elkins, John Holmes

Sadler’s Wells 15 Oct 1960 Tannhauser Richard Wagner Conductor: Reginald Goodall Ronald Dowd, Joan Stuart

Sadler’s Wells 28 Oct 1960 Cinderella Gioacchino Rossini Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Ian Wallace, Alexander Young, Patricia Kern

Sadler’s Wells 15 Dec 1960 Fidelio Beethoven Conductor: Colin Davis Elizabeth Fretwell, Ronald Dowd

Sadler’s Wells 20 Oct 1961 The Flying Dutchman Richard Wagner Conductor: William Reid David Ward, Elizabeth Fretwell, Harold Blackburn, Albert Remedios

Sadler’s Wells 25 Oct 1961 The Nightingale (Igor Stravinsky) Conductor: Brian Priestman John Stoddart, Ellen Dales Oedipus Rex (Igor Stravinsky) Conductor: Colin Davis Ronald Dowd, Patricia Johnson, Raimond Herincx, Harold Blackburn, Alberto Remedios

Sadler’s Wells 15 Nov 1961 Ariadne on Naxos Richard Strauss Conductor: Colin Davis Elizabeth Fretwell, Elsie Morison, Alberto Remedios, John Delaney, John Chorley

Sadler’s Wells 31 Oct 1961 Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi Donald Smith, Peter Glossop, Elizabeth Harwood, Joan Davies, Howard Dyson

Sadler’s Wells 1 Dec 1961 Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Michael Moores Elizabeth Fretwell, Rita Hunter, Peter Glossop Charles Craig, Donald McIntyre

Sadler’s Wells 24 Jan 1962 Iolanthe W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan Conductor: Alexander Faris Patricia Kern, Heather Begg, Leon Greene, Julian Moyle, Eric Shilling, Denis Dowling

Sadler’s Wells 25 Jan 1962 La Boheme Puccini Conductor: John Matheson Neil Easton, William McAlpine, Wendy Baldwin, Forbes Robinson, Elizabeth Vaughan

Sadler’s Wells 2 Feb 1962 The Rake’s Progress Igor Stravinsky Libretto: W.H. Auden & Chester Kallman Conductor: Colin Davis Elsie Morison, Alexander Young, Raimond Herincx, Don Garrard

Sadler’s Wells 25 Oct 1962 The Turn of the Screw Benjamin Britten Conductor: Meredith Davies Jennifer Vyvyan Sylvia Fisher, Elizabeth Fretwell, John Lanigan

Sadler’s Wells 2 Nov 1962 The Flying Dutchman Richard Wagner Conductor: Colin Davis David Ward, Elizabeth Fretwell, Alberto Remedios, Harold Blackburn

Sadler’s Wells 16 Nov 1962 Cinderella Gioacchino Rossini Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Patricia Kern, Louis Browne, Howell Glynne

Sadler’s Wells 17 Nov 1962 A Village Romeo and Juliet Frederick Delius Conductor: Meredith Davies Elsie Morison, Neil Easton, John Wakefield

Sadler’s Wells 5 Dec 1962 The Girl of the Golden West Puccini Conductor: Warwick Braithwaite Elizabeth Fretwell, Donald Smith, Raimund Herincx, Harold Blackburn

Sadler’s Wells 16 Jan 1963 The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Kurt Weill/Berthold Brecht Conductor: Colin Davis April Cantelo, Ronald Dowd, Inia Te Wiata, Alberto Remedios, Patricia Bartlett

Sadler’s Wells 22 Jan 1963 Rigoletto Guiseppe Verdi Conductor: John Matheson Peter Glossop Robert Thomas, Elizabeth Harwood, Donald McIntyre

Sadler’s Wells 29 Jan 1963 The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Kurt Weill Conductor: Leonard Hancock April Cantelo, Raymond Nilsson, Patricia Bartlett, Inia Te Wiata, Donald McIntyre

Sadler’s Wells 20 Feb 1963 Count Ory Gioacchino Rossini Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Alexander Young, Heather Begg, Elizabeth Harwood, Denis Dowling, Margaret Gale

Sadler’s Wells 23 Feb 1963 Tosca Puccini Conductor: John Matheson Victoria Elliott, Gwyn Griffiths, David Bowman

Sadler’s Wells New Opera Company

7 Mar 1963

Boulevard Solitude Grete Weil/Hans Werner Henze Conductor: John Matheson April Cantelo, John Carolan, Peter Glossop

Sadler’s Wells 22 Mar 1963 Cosi Fan Tutte Mozart Conductor: Colin Davis Thomas Henmsley, Heather McMillan, Catherine Wilson, John Wakefield

Sadler’s Wells and The New Opera Company

14 May 1963 The Love of Three Oranges Serge Prokofiev Conductor: Leon Lovett Heather Begg, Don Garrard, Rita Hunter

Sadler’s Wells The Handel Opera Society

19, 21, 24 & 28 June 1963

Xerxes George Frederick Handel Conductor: Anthony Lewis Alexander Young, Maureen Lehane, Helen Watts, Patricia Clark, Geoffrey Clifton

Sadler’s Wells 25 Sep 1963 Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Warwick Braithwaite Donald Smith, Gwyn Griffiths, Pauline Tinsley

Sadler’s Wells

24 Oct 1963 Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten Conductor: Meredith Davies Ronald Dowd, Una Hale, Sheila Rex, John Holmes, David Bowman,

Sadler’s Wells 5 Nov 1963 Samson and Delilah Saint-Saens Conductor: Warwick Braithwaite Alberto Remedios, Maureen Guy, John Hauxvell, Harold Blackburn

Sadler’s Wells 26 Nov 1963 Attila Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: John Matheson Donald McIntyre, Tom Swift, Rae Woodland, Donald Smith, Noel Mangin

Sadler’s Wells 2 Jan 1964 Hansel and Gretel Humperdinck Conductor: Mario Bernardi Margaret Neville, Patricia Kern, Rita Hunter

Sadler’s Wells 23 Jan 1964 The Girl of the Golden West Puccini Conductor: Warwick Braithwaite Elizabeth Fretwell, Raimond Herincx, Donald Smith, Stanley Bevan, Eric Shilling

Sadler’s Wells 29 Jan 1964 Idomeneo W.A. Mozart Conductor: Conductor Ronald Dowd, Rae Woodland, Ava June

Sadler’s Wells 8 Feb 1964 Carmen Georges Bizet Conductor: John Matheson Joyce Blackman, Jon Andrew, Michael Maurel

Sadler’s Wells 12 Feb 1964 The Makropulos Case Leos Janacek Conductor: Charles Mackerras Marie Collier, Raimund Herincx, Albert Gregor

Sadler’s Wells 26 Feb 1964 Ariadne on Naxos Richard Strauss Conductor: Colin Davis Elizabeth Fretwell, Neil Easton, Alberto Remedios, Elizabeth Harwood, Michael Malnick

Sadler’s Wells 10 Mar 1964 The Flying Dutchman Richard Wagner Conductor: Colin Davis Donald McIntyre, Elizabeth Bergman, Rita Hunter, Alberto Remedios

Sadler’s Wells 17 Mar 1964 La Traviata Verdi Conductor: John Matheson Ava June, John Wakefield, Stanley Bevan

Sadler’s Wells 3 Apr 1964 The Seraglio Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Colin Davis John Wakefield, Elizabeth Harwood, Jenifer Eddy, Harold Blackburn, Michael Malnick

Sadler’s Wells New Opera Co.

16 Apr 1964 Volpone Francis Burt/Ben Johnson John Holmes, Kevin Miller, Heather Begg John Carolan, Don Garrard, Julian Moyle

Sadler’s Wells 25 Apr 1964 Carmen Bizet Joyce Blackham, Jon Andrew, Raimund Herincx, John Heddle Nash

Sadler’s Wells 9 Jun 1964 The Gipsy Baron Johan Strauss Conductor: Vilem Tausky Nigel Douglas, Jenifer, Eddy, June Bronhill Derek Hammond Stroud, Lawrence Folley

Sadler’s Wells 26, 30 Jun 2 Jul 1964

Our Man in Havana Malcolm Williamson/Graham Greene Conductor: James Loughran Owen Branigan, Raimund Herincx, April Cantelo, Margaret Gale, Raymond Nilsson

Sadler’s Wells Handel Opera Society, with Philomusica of London

7, 9 Jul 1964 Semele George Frederic Handel Conductor: Peter Gellhorn Elizabeth Harwood, Geoffrey Chard, Owen Brannigan, John Noble, Helen Watts

Sadler’s Wells 16 Sep 1964 Faust Gounod Conductor: Colin Davis Alberto Remedios, Donald McIntyre, Wendy Baldwin, Elizabeth Bergman

Sadler’s Wells 17 Sep 1964 Cinderella Gioacchino Rossini Conductor: Frank Doolan Patricia Kern, Louis Browne, John Heddle Nash, Eric Shilling, Eric Stannard

Sadler’s Wells 17 Oct 1964 The Girl of the Golden West Puccini Conductor: Warwick Braithwaite Elizabeth Fretwell, Gwyn Griffiths, Donald Smith, Stanley Bevan, Don Garrard

Sadler’s Wells 27 Oct 1964 The Barber of Seville Rossini Conductor: Mario Bernardi Julian Moyle, Peter Tracey, Joyce Blackham, Donald Pilley, Denis Dowling

Sadler’s Wells 10 Dec 1964 Cosi Fan Tutte W.A. Mozart Conductor: Leonard Hancock John Wakefield, David Bowman, Denis Dowling, Pauline Tinsley, Patricia Kern, Margaret Gale

Sadler’s Wells 17 Feb 1965 A Masked Ball Verdi Conductor: Mario Bernardi Stafford Dean, Diana Todd, Jon Andrew, Robert Bickerstaff, Gerwyn Morgan

Sadler’s Wells 17 Mar 1965 L’Enfant et Les Sortileges in One Act Maurice Ravel Conductor: John Matheson Janet Coster, Shirley Chapman, Denis Dowling L’Heure Espagnole in One Act Maurice Ravel Conductor: Brian Priestman David Bowman, John Chorley, Joyce Blackham

Sadler’s Wells 30 Mar 1965 See Above

Sadler’s Wells 3 Apr 1965 Count Ory Gioacchino Rossini Conductor: Alexander Gibson Julian Moyle Barbara Rendell, Alexander Young

Sadler’s Wells Welsh National Opera Co.

19 May 1965 Fidelio Ludwig van Beethoven Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Gwyneth Jones, Robert Thomas, Derick Davies, Gwyn Griffiths, David Gwynne With the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Sadler’s Wells Welsh National Opera Co.

20 May 1965 Macbeth Verdi Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Ronald Lewis, David Gwynne, Pauline Tinsley With the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Sadler’s Wells Benevolent Fund Concert

4 Jul 1965

“Requiem” Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Colin Davis Elizabeth Fretwell, Patricia Kern, Ronald Dowd, Raimund Herincx

Sadler’s Wells New Opera

27 Jul 1965 The Angel of Fire Serge Prokofiev

Company Conductor: Leon Lovett Yvonne Minton, John Shaw, Marie Collier, John Rhys Evans, Elizabeth Bainbridge

Sadler’s Wells 28 Sep 1965 The Barber of Seville Gioacchino Rossini Conductor: Henry Krips John Heddle Nash, Kelvin Jones, Jenifer Eddy, Eric Shilling, Louis Browne, Johanna Peters

Sadler’s Wells 19 Oct 1965 Carmen Georges Bizet Conductor: Charles Mackerras Joyce Blackham, Donald Smith, Raimund Herincx, Stafford Dean, Margaret Curphey

Sadler’s Wells 23 Nov 1965 Idomeneo W.A. Mozart Conductor: Colin Davis Ronald Dowd, Rae Woodland, Ava June, John Wakefield, John Kentish, James Hawthorne

Sadler’s Wells 22 Dec 1965 Orpheus in the Underworld Jacques Offenbach Conductor: Alexander Faris Kevin Miller, John Carolan, Rosemary Preus, Maurine London, Cynthia Morey

Sadler’s Wells 1966 & 1967 Booking Brochures and Production Details Numbers 1-5

Sadler’s Wells 6 Jan 1966 Hansel and Gretel Humperdinck Conductor: Mario Bernardi Margaret Neville, Patricia Kern, Rita Hunter Neil Easton, Maureen Morelle, Ann Howard

Sadler’s Wells 18 Mar 1966 Cinderella Gioacchino Rossini Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Patricia Kern, Alexander Young, Howell Glynne, Denis Dowling, Margaret Gale, Shirley Chapman

Sadler’s Wells Hamburg State Opera Company

2 May 1966 Die Frau ohne Schatten Richard Strauss Conductor: Leopold Ludwig Peter Schreir, Ingeborg Kruger, Franz Crass

Sadler’s Wells Hamburg State Opera Company

3 May 1966 Cosi Fan Tutte W.A. Mozart Conductor: Matthias Kuntzsch Arlene Saunders, Kerstin Meyer, Peter Schreier, Tom Krause, Theo Adam, Ruth Margaret Putz

Sadler’s Wells 4 May 1966 Lulu

Hamburg State Opera Company

Alban Berg Conductor: Leopold Ludwig Evelyn Lear, Kerstin Meyer, Maria von Ilosvay Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra

Sadler’s Wells Hamburg State Opera Brochure

Undated Lohengrin, Der Prinz von Homburg, Lulu, Wozzeck Productions: Wieland Wagner, Helmut Kautner, Gunther Rennet,

Sadler’s Wells London Coliseum

1968/1969 1969/1970 1972/1973

Miscellaneous Booking Brochures and Production Details


1970-1973 The Ring of the Nibelung Richard Wagner The Rhinegold, 1 March 1972 The Valkyrie, 29 January 1970 Siegfried, 8 February 1973 Twilight of the Gods, 29 January 1971 Conductor: Reginald Goodall Rita Hunter, Ann Howard, Margaret Curphey Alberto Remedios, Norman Bailey


9 Dec 1971 The Damnation of Faust Hector Berlioz Conductor: Charles Mackerras Alberto Remedios, Raimund Herincx, Janet Baker, Robert Lloyd


11 Oct 1972 War and Peace Serge Prokofiev Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones Tom McDonnell, Josephine Barstow, Eric Shilling, Kenneth Woollam, Norman Welsby, Raymond Myers, Norman Bailey


7 Aug 1973 The Merry Widow Franz Lehar Conductor: John Wilks Denis Dowling, Nigel Douglas, Eileen Shaw


23 Aug 1973 Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Charles Mackerras David Gwynne, Anne Collins, Rita Hunter, Norman Bailey, John Sydney, Gabrielle Lavigne


12 Sep 1973 Katya Kabanova Leos Janacek Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones Silvia Fisher, Lorna Haywood, Kenneth Woollam

Sadler’s Wells London

13 Oct 1973 La Boheme Giacomo Puccini

Coliseum Conductor: Roderick Brydon Margaret Curphey, Keith Erwen, Ashton Smith


24 Jan 1974 Manon Jules Masenet Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones Valerie Masterson, Alan Opie, Robin Donald

English National Opera Formerly Sadler’s Wells London Coliseum

1974/1975 First Season Booking Brochure and Production Details: La Traviata, Cosi fan Tutte, Madam Butterfly, Don Carlos, Katya Kabanova, Manon, Die Fledermaus Musical Director: Charles Mackerras

Saltzburger Festspiele Ballet – New York City Ballet

20 Aug 1965 New York City Ballet Director: Lincoln Kirstein Artistic Director: George Balanchine European Tour

Scottish Opera 1973 Spring Plan

Brochure Operas, dates and touring list: Stirling, Sunderland, Liverpool, Perth, Glasgow, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Aberdeen

(The) Theatre Upstairs (Royal Court Theatre Sloane Square)

Undated The Revels of Gargantua in Exile (A Chamber Opera in the Epic Style) Martin Duncan Dir: Roger Croucher Geraldine Wright, Peter Benson, Sam Kelly Margot Leicester, Brian Protheroe

Royal Opera House Covent Garden

17 Jun 1947 Turandot Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Constant Lambert Eva Turner, Anthony Pavilony, Rhydderch Davies

(Vienna State Opera & Orchestra

1 Oct 1947 Cosi Fan Tutte Mozart Conductor: Josef Krips Irmgard Seefried, Sena Jurinac, Erich Kunz, Anton Dermota

(Vienna State Opera & Vienna State Opera Orchestra

4 Oct The Marriage of Figaro Mozart Conductor: Josef Krips Hans Hotter, Irmgard Seefried, Erich Kunz, Hilde Gueden, Peter Klein, Herbert Alsen

(Sadler’s Wells Ballet)

8 Dec 1947 The Rake’s Progress (Gavin Gordon & William Hogarth) Mam’zelle Angot (Leonide Massine) Les Patineurs (Mayerbeer & Constant Lambert Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton Margot Fonteyn, Moira Shearer, Robert

Helpmann, Michael Somes


31 Jan 1948 Les Sylphides (Chopin) The Three Cornered Hat (Manuel de Falla) Dante Sonata (Liszt & Constant Lambert) Scenery and costumes by Pablo Picasso Beryl Grey, John Field, Harold Turner, Violetta Elvin, Avril Navarre, Guinevere Parry

1 Jun 1948 La Traviata Giuseppe Verdi Producer: Tyrone Guthrie Conductor: Reginald Goodall Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Rosina Raisbeck, Kenneth Neate, Geraint Evans, Marian Nowakowski


12 Mar 1949 Le Lac Des Cygnes Act II (Tchaikovsky) Violetta Elvin, Alexis Rassine, John Cranko, Kenneth Macmillan, Avril Navarre Symphonic Variations (Cesar Frank) Margot Fonteyn Job (William Blake) Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ninette de Valois, John Piper, Michael Benthall Conductor: Warwick Braithwaite Alfred Rodrigues, Robert Helpmann, June Brae, John Cranko, Michael Somes


21 Mar 1949 Hamlet (Tchaikovsky) Choreography: Robert Helpmann Conductor: Robert Irving Robert Helpmann, Alfred Rodrigues, June Brae Le Lac Des Cygnes Act. II (Tchaikovsky) Choreography: Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Alexandra Danilova, Frederick Franklin The Three Cornered Hat (Manuel de Falla) Choreography: Leonide Massine Scenery Picasso Conductor: Robert Irving Leonide Massine, Violetta Elvin, John Hart

(Marquis de Cuevas’ Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo)

25 Jul 1949 Les Sylphides, ( Michel Fokine, Chopin) Del Amor Y De La Muerte, (Granados) Enchanted Mill (Franz Schubert) Conductor: Gustave Cloez Tamara Toumanova, Rosella Hightower, Andre Eglevsky, George Skibine

13 Nov 1950 - 13 Jan 1951

Royal Opera House Covent Garden Programme & Cast lists Opera

22 May - 8 Jul 1950

Royal Opera House Covent Garden Programme & Cast lists Opera & Ballet

Royal Opera House (New York City Ballet)

6 Aug 1952 The Duel Raffaello de Banfield Conductor Simon Sadoff Melissa Hayden, Francisco Moncion Le Lac Des Cygnes Act II Tchaikovsky Choreography: George Balanchine Costumes: Cecil Beaton Tanaquil CeClercq, Nicholas Magallanes A La Francaix Composer: Jean Francaix Choreography: George Balanchine Conductor: Leon Barzin, Melissa Hayden, Todd Bolender,

Royal O. House (Sadler’s Wells Ballet)

9 Dec 2952 Les Sylphides (Chopin) Don Juan (Richard Strauss) Apparitions (Constant Lambert, Liszt) Svetlana Beriosova, John Field

R.O.H. (Sadler’s Wells)

17 Jan 1953 Ballet Imperial (Tchaikovsky) Apparitions (Constant Lambert, Liszt) Daphnis and Chloe (Ravel) Pauline Clayden, Michael Somes, Svetlana Berisova

R.O.H. (Sadler’s Wells)

22 Jan 1957 The Prince of the Pagodas Benjamin Britten Cond. Robert Irving David Boswell, Svetlana Beriosova, Antoinette Sibley, Julia Farron

25 May 1953 - 11 Jul 1953

Royal Opera House Covent Garden Programme & Cast Lists Opera & Ballet

25 Jan 1954 - 27 Mar 1954

Royal Opera House Covent Garden Programme & Cast Lists – Opera & Ballet

7 Jun 1954 - 13 Sep 1958

Royal Opera & Royal Ballet 12 Programme & Cast Lists

Royal Opera House (Sadler’s Wells Ballet)

9 Mar 1954 Gala Royal Performance Coppelia Act III, Daphnis & Chloe Homage to the Queen

Royal Opera House

26 Jan 1957 Jenufa Leos Jsnacek Conductor: Edward Downes Amy Shuard, Joan Carlyle, Sylvia Fisher, Otakar Kraus, Josephine Veasey, David Kelly

Royal Opera House

2 Feb 1957 Norma Vincenzo Bellini Conductor: John Pritchard Maria Meneghini Callas, Marie Collier, Nicola Zaccaria, Giuseppe Vertechi, Dermot Troy

Royal Opera House

4 May 1957 Turandot Giacomo Puccini

(Programme signed by Davies, Shuard & Johnston

Conductor: Rudolf Kempe Rhydderch Davies, Amy Shuard, James Johnston Sylvia Fisher, David tree, David Kelly

Royal Opera House (Single page brochure)

6 Jun - 11 Jul 1957

The Trojans Hector Berlioz Producer: John Gielgud Conductor: Rafael Kubelik Blanche Thebom, Amy Shuard, Lauris Elms, Joan Carlyle, Jon Vickers, Joseph Rouleau

Royal Opera House

27 Jun 1957 Tosca Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Alexander Gibson Zinka Milanov, Forbes Robinson, Franco Corelli Gian Giacomo Guelfi, Ronald Lewis, Rhydderch Davies, Michael Langdon, David Tree

Royal Opera House

14 Oct 1957 Gotterdammerung Richard Wagner Conductor: Rudolf Kempe Birgit Nilsson, Set Svanholm, Hermann Uhde Gottlob Frick, Joan Sutherland, Otakar Kraus, Elisabeth Lindermeier, Amy Shuard

Royal Opera House

16 Nov 1957 Elektra Richard Strauss Conductor: Rudolf Kempe Gerda Lammers, Otakar Kraus, Lauris Elms, Noreen Berry, Josephine Veasy, Jeannette Sinclair, Una Hale, Georgine Von Milinkovic

Royal Opera House

21 Dec 1957 Otello (Verdi) Conductor: Edward Downes Joan Sutherland, Ramon Vinay, Otaka Kraus

Royal Opera House

11 Jan 1958 Tosca (Puccini) Conductor: Alexander Gibson Richard Tucker, Michael Langdon, Margherita Roberto, Scipio Colombo

Royal Opera House

26 Jun 1958 La Traviata (Verdi) Conductor: Nicola Rescigno Maria Meneghini Callas, Marie Collier, Cesare Valletti, Forbes Robinson

Royal Opera House (Ballet)

25 Mar 1958 Le Lac Des Cygnes (Tchaikovsky) Conductor: Hugo Rignold Svetlana Beriosova, Philip Chatfield, Gerd Larsen


28 Mar 1960 Le LacDes Cygnes (Tchaikovsky) Conductor: Emanuel Young Svetlana Beriosova, Donald Macleary, Derek Rencher, Merle Park, Monica Mason

Royal Opera House - Royal Ballet

7 Apr 1960 Gala Performance for the “President of the French Republic & Madame De Gaulle in the presence of The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh”

Royal Opera House

16 Apr 1960 Macbeth Giuseppe Verdi Producer: Michael Benthall Conductor: Edward Downes John Shaw, Joseph Rouleau, Amy Shuard, Andre Turp, John Dobson, Beaufoys Milton

Royal Opera House

19 Apr 1960 Parsifal Richard Wagner Conductor: Heinrich Hollreiser Jon Vickers, Otakar Kraus, Gottlob Frick, Grace Hoffmann, Robert Bowman


7 May 1960 Petrushka, Les Rendezvous, Le Baiser de la Fee (Igor Stravinsky, Daniel Auber, Stravinsky) Conductor: Colin Davis Alexander Grant, Nadia Nerina, Brian Shaw, Annette Page, Svetlana Beriosova, Meriel Evans

Royal Opera House

10 May 1960 The Trojans Hector Berlioz Conductor: John Pritchard Producer: John Gielgud Amy Shuard, John Shaw, Margreta Elkins, Jon Vickers, Rhydderch Evans


12 May 1960 La Valse, Giselle (Ravel), (Adolphe Adam) Conductor: Emanuel Young Georgina Parkinson, Derek Rencher, Svetlana Beriosova, Donald Macleary, Gerd Larsen


28 May 1960 Scenes de Ballet (Igor Stravinsky) La Fille Mal Gardee (Ferdinald Herold) Annette Page, Brian Shaw, Keith Rosson Alexander Grant, Nadia Nerina, David Blair

Covent Garden Memorial Concert All Souls’ Langham Place

Jun 1960 Samson (Handel) Cond. James Gibson Joan Sutherland, Josephine Veasey, Forbes Robinson, Robert Bowman In Memory of David Allen, Covent Garden Baritone in aid of his widow and children

Royal Opera House

7 Jun 1960 Electra Richard Strauss, Hugo von Hofmannsthal Conductor: Rudolf Kempe Gerda Lammers, Marie Collier, Otakar Kraus, Elizabeth Hoengen


14 Jun 1960 The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky) Conductor: Hugo Rignold

Derek Rencher, Gerd Larsen, Anya Linden, Merle Park, Georgina Parkinson, Desmond Doyle, Monica Mason, Ronald Plaisted

Royal Opera House

23 Jun 1960 La Traviata Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Virginia Zeani, Forbes Robinson, Marie Collier, John Dobson, Ronald Lewis

Royal Opera House

28 Jun 1960 Manon Jules Massenet Conductor: Jean Morel Victoria de Los Angeles, John Shaw, Kenneth Macdonald, Andre Turp

Royal Opera House (Royal Opera Stockholm)

30 Aug 1960 Two weeks’ season

The Flying Dutchman Richard Wagner Conductor: Sixten Ehrling Arne Tyren, Uno Stjernqvist, Sigurd Bjorling, Barbro Ericson, Siw Ericsdotter, Set Svanholm

Royal Opera House

Two cycles between: 16 Sep & 8 Oct 1960

Der Ring des Nibelungen (Two Cycles) Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung Richard Wagner Cond. Rudolf Kempe Hans Hotter, Margretta Elkins, Heather Begg Bergit Nilsson, Lillie Kraus

Royal Opera House

16 Sep 1960 Das Rheingold

Royal Opera House

21 Sep 1960 Die Walkure

Royal Opera House

26 Sep 1960 Siegfried

Royal Opera House

30 Sep 1960 Gotterdammerung

Gala with The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh & King & Queen of Nepal

19 Oct 1960

La Sonnambula Vincenzo Bellini Conductor: Tullio Serafin Joan Sutherland, Agostino Lazzari, Joseph Rouleau, Jeannette Sinclair

Royal Opera House

25 Oct 1960 La Sonnambula Vincenzo Bellini Conductor: Tullio Serafin Joan Sutherland, Agostino Lazzari, Joseph Rouleau, Jeannette Sinclair

Royal Opera House

26 Oct 1960 Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci Mascagni Leoncavallo Producer: Franco Zeffirelli,

Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Otakar Kraus, Josephine Veasey, Hans Kaart, John Shaw, Kenneth Macdonald

Royal Opera House

27 Oct 1960 Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Conductor: Edward Downes Regine Crespin, Hertha Topper, Michael Langdon, Kenneth Macdonald

Royal Opera House

1 Nov 1960 Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Conductor: Edward Downes Una Hale, Hertha Tupper, Michael Langdon, Ronald Lewis, Joan Carlyle

Royal Opera House

3 Nov 1960 La Sonnambula Vincenzo Bellini Conductor: Tullio Serafin Joan Sutherland, Jenifer Eddy, David Kelly, Robert Bowman, David Ward, Agostino Lazzari

Royal Opera House

7 Nov 1960 La Sonnambula Vincenzo Bellini As above

Royal Opera House

25 Nov 1960 Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten Conductor: Meredith Davies Peter Pears, Forbes Robinson, Edith Coates, Ronald Lewis, Josephine Veasey

Royal Opera House

3 Dec 1960 La Sonnambula Vincenzo Bellini Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Joan Sutherland, Forbes Robinson, Noreen Berry, Agostino Lazzari

Royal Opera House

6 Dec 1960 Tosca Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Edward Downes David Kelly, Luigi Ottolini, Gabriella Tucci, Otakar Kraus, Forbes Robinson

Royal Opera House

7 Dec 1960 Wozzeck Alban Berg Conductor: John Pritchard Geraint Evans, John Dobson, Marie Collier, Otakar Kraus, Michael Langdon

Royal Opera House

9 Dec 1960 Lucia di Lammermoor Donizetti Prod. Franco Zeffirelli Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Joan Sutherland, Geraint Evans, Margreta Elkins, Andre Turp, Kenneth Macdonald

Royal Opera House (Royal Ballet)

14 Dec 1960 Cinderella (Prokofieff) Producer: Frederick Ashton Margo Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Gordon Aitken, Barbara Remington

Royal Opera House

20 Dec 1960 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Alberto Erede Producer: Margherita Wallman Gabriella Tucci, Joseph Rouleau, John Shaw

Royal Opera House

22 Dec. 1960 Lucia di Lammermoor Donizetti Conductor: Bryan Balkwill, Producer: Franco Zeffirelli Joan Sutherland, Geraint Evans, Joseph Rouleau, Margreta Elkins, Andre Turp, Kenneth Macdonald

Royal Opera House

10 Jan 1961 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Alberto Erede Producer: Margherita Wallmann Gabriella Tucci, Joseph Rouleau, John Shaw, Nikola Nikolov, David Ward

Royal Opera House

17 Feb 1961 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Benjamin Britten Conductor: Georg Solti Producer: John Gielgud Russell Oberlin, Jenifer Eddy, Nicolas Chagrin, Forbes Robinson, Margreta Elkins, Geraint Evans, Kenneth Macdonald

Royal Opera House

4 Mar 1961 Fidelio Beethoven Conductor/Producer: Otto Klemperer Sena Jurinac, Elsie Morison, Gottlob Frick, Hans Hotter, Jon Vickers


27 Mar 1961 Ondine Hans Werner Henze Conductor: John Lanchbery Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Anya Linden, Alexander Grant, Leslie Edwards


6 Apr 1961 Giselle Adolphe Adam Conductor: John Lanchbery Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Gerd Larsen, Derek Rencher, Vyvyan Lorrayne, Anya Linden

Royal Opera House

18 Apr 1961 Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Conductor: Edward Downes

Regine Crespin, Michael Langdon, Ronald Lewis, Joan Carlyle


20 Apr 1961 The Lady and the Fool, (Verdi) Les Patineurs, (Meyerbeer) The Firebird, (Stravinsky) Conductor: John Lanchbery Svetlana Beriosova, David Blair, David Drew, Monica Mason, Merle Park, Nadia Nerina, Antoinette Sibley, Georgina Parkinson

Royal Opera House

22 Apr 1961 Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Bruno Bartoletti Ernst Blanc, Roberta Peters, Albert Lance,

Royal Opera House (Ballet) In Honour of the President of Finland & Madame Kekkonen

9 May 1961 The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky) Conductor: John Lanchbery Derek Rencher, Gerd Larsen, Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Deanne Bergsma, Ray Powell

Royal Opera House

17 May 1961 Falstaff Verdi Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini Producer: Franco Zeffirelli Geraint Evans, Mariella Angioletti, Mirella Freni, Regina Resnik, John Shaw, Luigi Alva, Josephine Veasey

Royal Opera House

18 May 1961 Tosca Puccini Conductor: Edward Downes Regine Crespin, Giuseppe di Stefano, Otakar Kraus, Rhydderch Davies

Royal Opera House

1 Jun 1961 Boris Godunov Moussorgsky Conductor: Reginald Goodall, Producer: Herbert Graf Boris Christoff, Joseph Rouleau, Ronald Lewis, Margreta Elkins, Kenneth Macdonald

Royal Opera House

5 Jun 1961 Boris Godunov For details see above

Royal Opera House (Ballet (The Leningrad State Kirov Ballet)

21 Jun 1961 The Stone Flower (Sergei Prokofiev) Conductor: Niazi Yuri Soloviev, Alla Sizova, Alla Osipenko, Anatoli Griden, Iraida Utretskaya

Royal Opera House

29 Sep 1961 Die Walkure (New Production) Richard Wagner Conductor: Georg Solti

Producer: Hans Hotter Jon Vickers, Anita Valkki, Rita Gorr, Marie Collier, Margreta Elkins, Josephine Veasey Hans Hotter (as Wotan)


7 Dec 1961 Les Sylphides, Petrushka, Les Patineurs For details see Ballet listing


12 Dec 1961 Les Sylphides, Persephone, Diversions For details see Ballet listing

Royal Opera House

4 Jan 1962 Die Zauberflote Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Otto Klemperer Richard Lewis, Joan Sutherland, Geraint Evans, Joan Carlyle, Hans Hotter, Jenifer Eddy, Dezsoe Ernster, Josephine Veasey, Robert Bowman, Monica Sinclair, Judith Pierce

Royal Opera House

8 Jan - 2 Jun 1962

Programmes & Notes Opera & Ballet

Royal Opera House

8 Mar 1962 Alcina George Frederick Handel Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Producer: Franco Zeffirelli Joan Sutherland, Margreta Elkins, Kenneth Macdonald, Monica Sinclair, Forbes Robinson


3 May 1962 Gala Performance in aid of Royal Ballet Benevolent Fund See Ballet Set for Details

Royal Opera House

22 May 1962 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Alberto Erede Galina Vishnevskaya, CharlesCraig, Joseph Rouleau, Marguarita lilova Note: Giovanni Martinelli’s 50th anniversary Debut at Covent Garden with presentation on behalf of The British Institute of Recorded Sound

Royal Opera House

4 Jun - 19 Dec 1962


Royal Opera House

5 Jun 1962 King Priam Michael Tippett Conductor: John Pritchard Producer: Sam Wanamaker Marie Collier, Forbes Robinson, John Dobson, Margreta Elkins, Josephine Veasey

Royal Opera House (Gala Performance Benevolent

4 Jul 1962 Otello Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Georg Solti Raina Kabaiwanska, Mario Del Monaco, Geraint

Fund) Evans, Josephine Veasey,

Royal Opera House

11 Oct 1962 Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Conductor: Edward Downes Claire Watson, Margreta Elkins, Kurt Boehme Robert Bowman, Monica Sinclair

Royal Opera House (Royal Ballet)

13 Oct 1962 Les Rendezvous, The Good Humoured Ladies, The Rite of Spring See Ballet Set for Details

Royal Opera House

10 Nov 1962 Cavalleria Rusticana Pietro Mascagni Producer: Franco Zeffirelli Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Charles Craig, Amy Shuard, Otakar Kraus Pagliacci Ruggiero Leoncavallo Producer: Franco Zeffirelli, Conductor: Bryan Balkwill John Shaw, Ronald Dowd, Elizabeth Vaughan

Royal Opera House

22 Nov 1962 Le Coq D’Or Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Conductor: Antal Dorati Producer: Robert Helpmann Scenery and costumes: Loudon Sainthill Kenneth Macdonald, Forbes Robinson, Elizabeth Vaughan, Monica Sinclair

Royal Opera House

26 Nov 1962 - 2 Feb 1963 4 Feb - 23 Mar 1963

Opera & Ballet Programmes & Notes Calendar & Booking forms

Royal Opera House

14 Mar 1963 Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Conductor: Heinz Wallberg Production Rehearsed John Copley Regine Crespin, Kerstin Meyer, Michael Langdon, Moyna Cope, Joseph Ward

Royal Opera House

8 Apr 1963 Lohengrin Richard Wagner Conductor: Otto Klemperer Sandor Konya, Regine Crespin, John Shaw, Jenifer Eddy, Rita Gorr, David Ward

Royal Opera House

17 Apr 1963 Don Carlos Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: John Pritchard Producer: Luchino Visconti Ragnar Ulfung, Claire Watson, Grace Bumbry, Tito Gobbi, Boris Christoff

Royal Opera House

23 Apr 1963 Troilus and Cressida William Walton Conductor: Malcolm Sargent Andre Turp, Marie Collier, Forbes Robinson, Ronald Lewis, Josephine Veasey

Royal Opera House Gala Performance Benevolent Fund

29 May 1963 Le Nozze de Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Georg Solti Geraint Evans, Mirella Freni, Teresa Berganza, Tito Gobbi, Ilva Ligabue, Kenneth Macdonald

Royal Opera House

3 Jun 1963 Le Nozze de Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Geraint Evans, Mirella Freni, Margaret Price, Teresa Berganza, Tito Gobbi, Jenifer Eddy

Royal Opera House

18 Jun 1963 Khovanshchina Modest Moussorgsky Orchestrated Dmitri Shostakovich Conductor: Constantin Silvestri Andre Turp, Monica Sinclair, Charles Craig, Ronald Lewis, Kenneth Macdonald

Royal Opera House

24 Jun 1963 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Aleksandre Melic-Pashayev Galina Vishnevskaya, Regina Resnik, Joao Gibin, David Kelly/Michael Langdon

Royal Opera House

25 Jun 1963 Khovanshchina Details as above

Royal Opera House

25 Mar - 29 Jun 1963

Programmes & Notes – Booking Details

Royal Opera House – Bolshoi Ballet

15 Jul 1963 Romeo and Juliet Sergei Prokofiev Conductor: Gennadi Rozhdestvenski Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Raissa Struchkova, Maris Liepa

Royal Opera House – Bolshoi Ballet

22 Jul 1963 Don Quixote Act I, Paganini, Lieutenant Kiji Ludwig Minkus, Sergei Rachmaninov Conductors: Alexander Kopylov, Algis Zhuraytis Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Peter Khomutov, Georgi Soloviev, Vladimir Vasiliev, Esfandyar Kashni,

Royal Opera House

11 Sep 1963 Gotterdammerung Richard Wagner Conductor: Georg Solti, Producer: Hans Hotter Birgit Nilsson, Margreta Elkins, Rita Hunter, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gottlob Frick, Marie

Collier, Otakar Kraus, Thomas Stewart

Royal Opera House

28 Sep 1963 Lohengrin Richard Wagner Conductor: Norman Del Mar Hans Hopf, Leonie Rysanek, Rita Gorr

Royal Opera House

5 Oct 1963 Matinee

Coppelia Leo Delibes Conductor: John Lanchbery Antoinette Sibley, Christopher Gable, Stanley Holden, Jennifer Penney, Monica Mason Derek Rencher, Leslie Edwards, David Jones

Royal Opera House

7 Oct 1963 La Boheme Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Maurits Sillem Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Carlyle, Peter Glossop, Marie Collier, Forbes Robinson

Royal Opera House

14 Oct - 2 Nov 1963

Programmes & Notes

Royal Opera House

14 Oct 1963 The Carmelites Francis Poulenc Conductor: Meredith Davies Otakar Kraus, Heather Harper, Monica Sinclair, Joan Carlyle, Margreta Elkins


16 Oct 1963 Symphony (Shostakovich), La Fete Etrange (Faure), Electra (Malcolm Arnold) Conductors: John Lanchbery, Emanuel Young Choreography: Kenneth Macmillan, Andree Howard, Robert Helpmann Lynn Seymour, Donald Macleary, Svetlana Beriosova, Nadia Nerina, David Blair

Royal Opera House

19 Oct 1963 Khovanshchina Modest Moussorgsky Arranged: Dmitri Shostakovich Conductor: Edward Downes David Ward, Elizabeth Vaughan, Charles Craig Kenneth Macdonald, Forbes Robinson

Royal Opera House

28 Nov 1963 Madama Butterfly Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Andre Turp, Renata Scotto, Josephine Veasey,


31 Oct 1963 La Fete Etrange, (Faure), Ballet Imperial (Tchaikovsky) Petrushka (Stravinsky) Conductor: John Lanchbery Choreography: Andree Howard, George Balanchine, Michel Fokine Anthony Dowell, Annette Page, Donald Macleary, Rudolf Nureyev, Nadia Nerina

Royal Opera House

13 Nov 1963 Don Carlos Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes Producer: Luchino Visconti Ragnar Ulfung, Gre Brouwenstijn, Nicolai Ghiaurov, John Dobson

Royal Opera House

16 Nov 1963 Don Carlos Details as above

Royal Opera House

18 Nov 1963 Manon Jules Massenet Conductor: John Pritchard Renata Scotto, Andre Turp, Robert Savoie Joseph Rouleau, Delme Bryn-Jones

Royal Opera House (First stage performance in England in the presence of the composer)

2 Dec 1963 Katerina Ismailova (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District) Dimitri Shostakovich Conductor: Edward Downes Marie Collier, Otakar Kraus, Edgar Evans, Charles Craig, Rhydderch Davies

Royal Opera House

3 Dec 1963 Madama Butterfly Puccini See 28 Oct. for details

Royal Opera House

18 Dec 1963 Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Conductor: Antal Dorati Leonie Rysanek, Josephine Veasey, Michael Langdon, Kenneth Macdonald

Royal Opera House

2 Dec 1963 - 7 Mar 1964


Royal Opera House

14 January 1964

Billy Budd Benjamin Britten Conductor: Georg Solti Robert Kerns, Richard Lewis, Delme Bryn-Jones, John Shaw, Kenneth Macdonald


15 Jan 1964 La Bayadere & The Two Pigeons Ludwig Minkus with Rudolf Nureyev Andre Messager with Frederick Ashton Conductor: John Lanchbery Svetana Beriosova, Antoinette Sibley, Lynn Seymour, Christopher Gable

Royal Opera House (New Production)

21 Jan 1964 Tosca Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Carlo Felice Cillario Producer: Franco Zerrirelli Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Renato Cioni,

Robert Bowman, Dennis Wicks

Royal Opera House

10 Feb 1964 Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Georg Solti Production: Franco Zeffirelli Caelo Cossutta, Anna Moffo, David Ward Peter Glossop (stand in for Geraint Evans)

Royal Opera House

13 Feb 1964 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Galina Vishnevskaya, Jon Vickers, Forbes Robertson, John Shaw, Giulietta Simionato


20 Feb 1964 Ondine Hans Werner Henze Conductor: Sergiu Comissiona Choreography: Frederick Ashton Nadia Nerina, Desmond Doyle, Deanne Bergsma, Alexander Grant, Leslie Edwards

Royal Opera House

20 Mar 1964 I Puritani Vincenzo Bellini Conductor: Richard Bonynge Producer: Franco Zeffirelli Joan Sutherland, Margreta Elkins, Charles Craig, Joseph Rouleau, Joseph Ward

Royal Opera House

10 Feb - 23 May 1964

Programme Notes Opera & Ballet

Royal Opera House

23 Mar 1964 I Puritani See 20 Mar. for details


28 Mar 1964 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Conductor: Sergiu Comissiona Choreography: Frederick Ashton with Rudolf Nureyev and Maria Fay Produced: Robert Helpmann Svetlana Beriosova, Donald Macleary Keith Rosson, Pamela May, Leslie Edwards

Royal Opera House

30 Mar 1964 I Puritani See 20 Mar. and 23 Mar. for details


6 Apr 1964 The Dream Felix Mendelssohn Conductor: Serigiu Comisiona, Choreography: John Lanchbery with Merle Park and Anthony Dowell Images of Love (9 Moments from Shakespeare)

Peter Tranchell Conductor: John Lanchbery Svetslana Beriosova, Nadia Nerina, Rudolf Nureyev, Christopher Gable, Keith Rosson Hamlet Tchaikovsky Conductor: John Lanchbery, Choreography: Robert Helpmann Rudolf Nureyev, Monica Mason, Lynn Seymour

Royal Opera House

7 Apr 1964 I Puritani Same details as 30 Mar. except John Dobson replaces Joseph Ward

Royal Opera House

4 May 1964 Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes Producer: Franco Zeffirelli Geraint Evans, Josephine Veasey, Fedora Barbieri, Ronald Llewis, Giuseppe Baratti

Royal Opera House

22 May 1964 Le Nozze Di Figaro Mozart Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Geraint Evans, Mirella Freni, Teraza Berganza, Tito Gobbi, Michael Langdon,

Royal Opera House (The Opera House Manchester)

26 Jun 1964 Otello Giuseppe Verdi Ronald Lewis Jon Vickers, Kenneth Macdonald, Joan Carlyle, Margreta Elkins, David Kelly

Royal Opera House (Brochure & Programmes)

3 – 26 Sep 1964 Der Ring des Nibelungen (2 Cycles) Richard Wagner Conductor: Georg Solti Amy Shuard, Marie Collier, Hans Hotter, Josephine Veasey, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gottlob Frick, David Ward Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung,

Royal Opera House

5 Oct 1964 - 20 Feb 1965

Programme & Notes Opera & Ballet

Royal Opera House

20 Oct 1964 Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes Producer: France Zeffirelli Andre Turp, Giuseppe Taddei, Elizabeth Vaughan, Joseph Rouleau,

Royal Opera House

21 Oct 1964 Fidelio Ludwig van Beethoven Conductor: Norman del Mar Gwyneth Jones, Forbes Robinson,

Vilem Pribyl

Royal Opera House

29 Oct 1964 Wozzeck Alban Berg Conductor: John Pritchard Geraint Evans, Marilyn Horne, Otakar Kraus, Kenneth Macdonald, Noreen Berry

Royal Opera House

6 Nov 1964 Wozzek For details see above


9 Nov 1964 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Conductor: Sergiu Comissiona Choreography: Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, Frederick Ashton, Rudolf Nureyev, Maria Fay Producer: Robert Helpmann Svetlana Beriosova, Christopher Gable, Keith Rosson, Pamela May, Leslie Edwards

Royal Opera House

13 Nov 1964 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: James Loughran Claire Watson, Charles Craig, Forbes Robinson, Josephine Veasey, John Shaw

Royal Opera House Gala Performance Benevolent Fund

19 Nov 1964 Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini Producer: Luchino Visconti Leontyne Price, Giulietta Simonato, Peter Glossop, Joseph Rouleau, Bruno Prevedi


21 Nov 1964 Matinee

Giselle Adolphe Adam Conductor: Emanuel Young Choreography: Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot Frederick Ashton and Tamara Karsavina Svetlana Beriosova, Donald Macleary, David Drew, Robert Mead, Gerd Larsen

Royal Opera House

21 Nov 1964 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: James Loughran Elizabeth Fretwell, Charles Craig, Giulietta Simionato, Forbes Robinson, John Shaw

Royal Opera House (Ballet) First Performance of New Production

9 Feb 1965 Romeo and Juliet Serge Prokofiev Conductor: John Lanchbery Choreography: Kenneth Macmillan Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Michael Somes, David Blair, Desmond Doyle, Gerd

Larsen, Georgina Parkinson

Royal Opera House

10 Feb 1965 Arabella Richard Strauss Conductor: Georg Solti Lisa Della Casa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josephine Veasey, Joan Carlyle, Kenneth Macdonald, Jenifer Eddy


11 Feb 1965 Romeo and Juliet See 9 Feb. for details

Royal Opera House

13 Feb 1965 Turandot Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Edward Downes Scenery and costumes: Cecil Beaton Amy Shuard, Nikola Nikolov, Joseph Rouleau, Ronald Lewis, Kenneth Macdonald

Royal Opera House

15 Feb 1965 Arabella Richard Strauss Conductor: Edward Downes Lisa Della Casa, Joan Carlyle, Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau, Kenneth Macdonald, Jenifer Eddy


20 Feb 1965 Matinee

Romeo and Juliet Serge Prokofiev Conductor: Emanuel Young Choreography: Kenneth Macmillan Merle Park, Donald Macleary, David Blair, Desmond Doyle, Michael Somes, Gerd Larsen


20 Feb 1965 Evening

Romeo and Juliet Serge Prokofiev Conductor: John Lanchbery Lynn Seymour, Christopher Gable, Michael Somes, David Blair, Desmond Doyle

Royal Opera House

22 Feb - 22 May 1965

Programmes & Notes Opera and Ballet


22 Feb 1965 Romeo and Juliet Serge Prokofiev Conductor: John Lanchbery Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Michael Somes, David Blair, Desmond Doyle

Royal Opera House (Ballet) Gala Performance

24 Mar 1965 Monotones, Laurentia, Birthday Offering, Diana & Acteon, Polovtsian Dances Conductor: John Lanchbery, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Svetlana Beriosova, Merle Park, Christopher Gable

Royal Opera House

7 Apr 1965 Cavalleria Rusticana Pietro Mascagni

Conductor: Bryan Balkwill, Producer: Franco Feffirelli Ronald Lewis, Yvonne Minton, Pagliacci Ruggiero Leoncavallo Conductor: Bryan Balkwill Producer: Franco Zeffirelli Charles Craig, John Shaw, Marie Collier,

Royal Opera House

12 April 1965 Il Trittico Giacomo Puccini: Conductor: John Pritchard Il Tabarro: Tito Gobbi, Charles Craig, Marie Collier, Elizabeth Bainbridge Suor Angelica: Joan Carlyle, Yvonne Minton Noreen Berry, Jeannette Sinclair Gianni Schicchi: Tito Gobbi, Robert Bowman, Elizabeth Vaughan,

Royal Opera House

29 Apr 1965 Billy Budd Benjamin Britten Conductor: Meredith Davies Peter Glossop, Richard Lewis, Robert Bowman, John Shaw, Forbes Robinson

Royal Opera House

3 May 1965 Lucia di Lammermoor Gaetano Donizetti Conductor: Richard Bonynge Joan Sutherland, Andre Turp, Delme Bryn- Jones, Joseph Rouleau

Royal Opera House

10 May 1965 Otello Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes James McCracken, Tito Gobbi, Joan Carlyle, Monica Sinclair, Ronald Lewis

Royal Opera House

13 May 1965 Otello Details as above


18 May 1965 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Produced: Nicolai Sergueeff Nadia Nerina, Attilio Labis, Sheila Humphreys, Henry Legerton, Richard Farley, Bryan Ashbridge


20 May 1965 Swan Lake (As above with small change of cast) Doreen Wells, David Gordon

Royal Opera House

24 May 1965 - 5 March 1966

Programmes and Notes (incl. Der Ring des Nibelungen Sep. to Oct.)


30 Aug - 11 Sep 1965

New York City Ballet – 14 Performances Director: George Balanchine

Brochure Principal Conductor: Robert Irving Suzanne Farrell, Patricia McBride, Jacques d’Amboise, Arthur Mitchell

Royal Opera House

4 Feb 1966 Der Fliegende Hollander Richard Wagner Conductor: Georg Solti Gottlob Frick, Kenneth Macdonald, David Ward, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Gwyneth Jones, Vilem Pribyl


5 Feb 1966 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Conductor: John Lanchbery Svetlana Beriosova, Donald Macleary, Keith Rosson, Pamela May, Leslie Edwards


1 Mar 1966 Napoli, Flower Festival at Genzano, Monotones, Card Game, Serenade Conductor: John Lanchbery Choreographers: Auguste Bournonville, Frederick Ashton, John Cranko, George Balanchine Merle Park, Brian Shaw, Annette Page, Donald Macleary, Vyvyan Lorrayne Anthony Dowell, Svetlana Beriosova, Monica Mason

Royal Opera House

7 Mar - 16 Apr 1966

Programmes and Notes

Royal Opera House

7 Mar 1966 Iphigenie en Tauride Christoph Willibald Gluck Conductor: John Pritchard Josephine Veasey, Walter Alberti, Margreta Elkins, Robert Massard, Jean Bonhomme

Royal Opera House

10 Mar 1966 Napoli, Flower Festival at Genzano, Monotones, Brandenburg 2 & 4, Card Game Conductor: Emanuel Young Choreographers: Auguste Bournoville, Frederick Ashton, John Cranko Merle Park, Antoinette Sibley, Georgina Parkinson, Anthony Dowell, Vyvyan Lorrayne Donald Macleary, Deanne Bergsma

Royal Opera House

19 Mar 1966 The Tales of Hoffmann Jacques Offenbach Conductor: James Loughran Barry Morell, Yvonne Minton, Jenifer Eddy, Norman Mittelmann, Heather Harper


21 Mar 1966 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Conductor: Emanuel Young Production: Robert Helpmann

Choreography: Frederick Ashton Rudolf Nureyev, Svetlana Beriosova, Donald Macleary, Keith Rosson


23 Mar 1966 Scenes de Ballet, Les Biches, Les Noces Igor Stravinsky Conductor: John Lanchbery, Choreography: Frederick Ashton Antoinette Sibley, Brian Shaw, Keith Rosson, Robert Mead, Anthony Dowell


26 Mar 1966 La Fille Mal Gardee Ferdinand Herold Conductor: Emanuel Young Choreography: Frederick Aston Scenery and costumes: Osbert Lancaster Brian Shaw, Merle Park, Graham Usher,

Royal Opera House

7 Mar - 30 Jul 1966

3 Programme and Notes Opera and Ballet

Royal Opera House (Brochure)

2 Jun 1966 La fille du regiment Gaetano Donizetti Conductor: Richard Bonynge Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti


5 Sep - 1 Oct 1966

Leningrad State Kirov Ballet Booking Form for Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Cinderella, Chopiniana, Taras Bulba, La Bayadere, Gayaneh and excerpts from Casse Noisette


29 Sep 1966 Leningrad State Kirov Ballet Minkus, Khachaturian, Gluck, Asafiev, Feldt Ponce, Schubert, Tchaikovsky Conductors: Victor Shirokov & Victor Fedotov 29 Soloists, and Corps de Ballet

Royal Opera House

12 Oct – 5 Nov 1966

Des Ring des Nibelungen Richard Wagner Programme & Notes, Subscription Form

Royal Opera House

11 Nov -1 8 Apr 1966 - 1967

3 Advance Programmes for Opera and Ballet


23 Feb 1967 Paradise Lost – World Premiere Roland Petit Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev Serenade and Les Noces Svetlana Beriosova, Donald MacLeary, Robert Mead, Monica Mason


17 Mar 1967 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Conductor: Emanuel Young Production: Robert Helpmann Frederick Ashton and Rudolf Nureyev

Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell


25 Mar 1967 Matinee

La Fille mal Gardee Ferdinand Herold Conductor: Emanuel Young Choreography: Frederick Ashton Brian Shaw, Ann Jenner, Alexander Grant


25 Mar 1967 Evening

The Song of the Earth (Gustav Mahler) Marguerite and Armand (Franz Liszt) Conductors: John Lanchbery, Emanuel Young Kenneth Macdonald, Monica Mason Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Michael Somes, Leslie Edwards


1 Apr 1967 Matinee

Giselle Adolphe Adam Conductor: John Lanchbery Merle Park, Anthony Dowell, David Drew


8 Apr 1967

Apollo, (Igor Stravinsky) Shadowplay, (A. Tudor, C. Koechlin) Paradise Lost (R. Petit, M. Raysse) Conductors: John Lanchbery, Emanuel Young Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Anthony Dowell, Donald Macleary, Monica Mason

Royal Opera House (Friends of Covent Gdn.) Rehearsal

17 Apr 1967

La Traviata Giuseppe Verdi Producer: Luchino Visconti Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini

Royal Opera House

17 Apr – 10 Jun 1967

Advance Programme details Opera and Ballet

Royal Opera House

19 Apr 1967 La Traviata Giuseppe Verdi Producer: Luchino Visconti Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini Mirella Freni, Renato Cioni,

Royal Opera House

29 Apr 1967 La Traviata See 19 Apr. for details


3 May 1967 The Dream Mendelssohn-Shakespeare Lucette Aldous, David Wall The Two Pigeons Andre Messager-La Fontaine Doreen Wells, David Wall Conductor: Christopher Fry


8 May 1967 The Dream Mendelssohn-Shakespeare Doreen Wells, David Wall The Two Pigeons Andre Messager-La Fontaine

Doreen Wells, David Wall Conductor: Christopher Fry

Royal Opera House

12 May 1967 Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) Richard Wagner Conductor: Colin Davis David Ward, Ingrid Bjoner, Michael Langdon, Elizabeth Bainbridge


20 May 1967 Sinfonietta & The Two Pigeons Malcolm Williamson & Andre Messager Conductor: Stewart Kershaw Alfreda Thorogood, Brenda Last, David Wall


2 Jun 1967 Danses Concertantes, Concerto, The Invitation Igor Stravinsky, Dimitri Shostakovich, Matyas Seiber Conductor: Stewart Kershaw Shirley Grahame, Richard Farley, David Wall, Alfreda Thorogood, Doreen Wells

Royal Opera House

12 Jun - 29 Jul 1967

Advance Programme: Opera & Ballet

Royal Opera House

14 Jun 1967 Die Frau Ohne Schatten (The Woman without Shadows) Richard Strauss Conductor: Georg Solti Inge Borkh, Donald McIntyre, Otakar Kraus, Margreta Elkins, Yvonne Minton, Regina Resnik, James King, Hildegard Hillebrecht


24 Jun 1967 Matinee

La Fille mal Gardee Ferdinand Herold Conductor: Stewart Kershaw Merle Park, David Wall, Henry Legerton

Royal Opera House Gala Performance Brochure

4 Jul 1967 Der Rosenkavalier, Don Carlos, Lucia de Lammermoor Conductors: Georg Solti, Edward Downes, Richard Bonynge Yvonne Minton, Ronald Lewis, Grace Brumbry, Boris Christoff, Joan Sutherland, Forbes Robinson, Delme Bryn Jones


15 Jul Matinee

Royal Ballet School (Incl. booklet of student names 1956-1966) Swan Lake Act II, The Rake’s Progress (Gavin Gordon), Les Rendezvous (Daniel Auber) Hilary Tickner, Andis Marton, Anthony Molyneux, Victor Kravchenko


26 Jul 1967 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky

Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Svetlana Beriosova, David Blair

Royal Opera House

7 Oct 1967 Siegfried Richard Wagner Conductor: Edward Downes Ticho Parly, Ludmila Dvorakova Herbert Fliether

Royal Opera House

13 Sep - 7 Oct 1967 12 Oct - 9 Dec 1967

Programme & Notes Der Ring des Nibelungen Advance Programme Opera & Ballet

Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Ballet)

12 Oct 1967 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Conductor: John Lanchbery Svetlana Beriosova, Rudolf Nureyev, Keith Rosson, Gerd Larsen

Royal Opera House Covent Garden

15 Oct 1967

BBC Television: Gala Performance Introduced by James Robertson Justice Conductor: Edward Downes Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Tito Gobbi, Svetlana Beriosova, Victoria Postnikova, John Williams, Georgina Parkinson. Artists of the Royal Ballet in Les Sylphides


17 Oct 1967 Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) Conductor: John Lanchbery Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Monica Mason, Robert Mead


18 Oct 1967 Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) Conductor: John Lanchbery Deanne Bergsma, Keith Rosson, Derek Rencher, Monica Mason, Anthony Dowell


20 Oct 1967 Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) Conductor: Emanuel Young Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Derek Rencher, Monica Mason,


26 Oct 1967 Shadowplay (Charles Koechlin) The Song of the Earth (Gustav Mahler) Conductor: John Lanchbery Anthony Dowell, Kenneth Mason, Merle Park, Monica Mason, Jennifer Penney

Royal Opera House (Ballet) (For Youth & Music & Friends of Covent Gdn.)

7 Nov 1967 Shadowplay (Charles Koechlin) The Song of the Earth (Gustav Mahler) Conductor: John Lanchbery Anthony Dowell, Keith Rosson, Monica Mason, Ann Jenner, Kenneth Mason


11 Nov 1967 Romeo and Juliet Serge Prokofiev

Conductor: Emanuel Young Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Kenneth Mason, Michael Somes, Desmond Doyle, Gerd Larsen, Monica Mason

Royal Opera House

14 Nov 1967 Fidelio Ludwig van Beethoven Conductor: Colin Davis Ingrid Bjoner, Vilem Pribyl, Michael Langdon Donald McIntyre, Forbes Robinson


15 Nov 1967 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Conductor: John Lanchbery Monica Mason, Keith Rosson, Derek Rencher, Pamela May, Ann Jenner


16 Nov 1967 Les Patineurs (Meyerbeer) SymphonicVariations (Cesar Franck) Persephone (Igor Stravinsky) Conductor: John Lanchbery Caroldene Horne, Diana Vere, Merle Park, Donald Macleary, Graham Usher, Svetlana Beriosova, Alexander Grant, Keith Rosson, Gerd Larsen, Derek Rencher, Kenneth Bowen

Royal Opera House

30 Nov 1967 Norma Vincenzo Bellini Conductor: Richard Bonynge Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Joseph Rouleau, Franco Tagliavini, John Lanigan


7 Dec 1967 Ballet Imperial, Monotones Nos. 1 & 2 Les Noces Tchaikovsky, Erik Sati, Igor Stravinsky Conductors: John Lanchbery, Emanuel Young Antoinette Sibley, Desmond Doyle, Diana Vere, Georgina Parkinson, Svetlana Beriosova, Robert Mead, Gerd Larsen

Royal Opera House

11 Dec 1967 - 25 Jan 1968

Advance Programme Booking Details Opera & Ballet


13 Dec 1967 Ballet Imperial, Monotones Nos.1 & 2 Les Noces For details see above. Small cast changes


18 Dec 1967 Sylvia, La Valse, La Bayadere Delibes, Maurice Ravel, Ludwig Minkus Conductor: John Lanchbery Nadia Nerina, Alexander Grant, Georgina Parkinson, Derek Rencher, Svetlana Beriosova, Rudolf Nureyev, Monica Mason

Royal Opera 22 Dec 1967 Otello

House Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Georg Solti Tito Gobbi, James McCracken, Joan Carlyle, Kenneth Macdonald, Anne Howells


26 Dec 1967 Cinderella Serge Prokofiev Conductor: Emanuel Young Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Georgina Parkinson, Stanley Holden, Petrus Bosman


4 Jan 1968 Sylvia , La Bayadere, La Valse Leo Delibes, Ludwig Minkus, Ravel Conductor: John Lanchbery Deanne Bergsma, Alexander Grant, Rudolf Nureyev, Vyvyan Lorrayne, Merle Park, Monica Mason, Georgina Parkinson


6 Jan 1968 Matinee

Sylvia, La Valse, La Bayadere Delibes, Ravel, Minkus Conductor: Emanuel Young Monica Mason, Alexander Grant, Georgina Parkinson, Derek Rencher, Antoinette Sibley


9 Jan 1968 La Bayadere, Jazz Calendar, Monotones 1 & 2 Minkus, Richard Rodney Bennett, Erik Satie Conductor: John Lanchbery Antoinette Sibley, Michael Coleman, Merle Park, Vergie Derman, Anthony Dowell, Alexander Grant, Georgina Parkinson, Brian Shaw, Vyvyan Lorrayne, Robert Mead

Royal Opera House

22 Jan - 9 Mar 1968

Opera & Ballet Booking Details Brochure

Royal Opera House

24 Jan 1968 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes Gwyneth Jones, Grace Bumbry, Joseph Rouleau, Jon Vickers, John Shaw

Royal Opera House

30 Jan 1968 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes Gwyneth Jones, Christa Ludwig, Joseph Rouleau, Jon Vickers, John Shaw

Royal Opera House

16 Feb 1968 Jenufa Leos Janacek Conductor: Rafael Kubelik Marie Collier, Otakar Kraus, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Astrid Varnay, John Lanigan

Royal Opera House

17 Feb 1968 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes

Gwyneth Jones, Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, Michael Langdon, John Shaw, David Kelly

Royal Opera House

24 Feb 1968 Jenufa Leos Janacek Conductor: Rafael Kubelik Marie Collier, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Otakar Kraus, Astrid Varnay, John Lanigan

Royal Opera House (Ballet Brochure)

29 Feb 1968 The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky Rudolf Nureyev Production Conductor: Emanuel Young

Royal Opera House

11 Mar - 27 Apr 1968

Opera & Ballet Bookings Brochure

Royal Opera House

22 Mar 1968 Tosca Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Charles Mackerras Sena Jurinac, Geraint Evans, Franco Tagliavine, George Macpherson


27 Mar 1968 The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky Conductor: John Lanchbery Antoinette Sibley, Keith Martin, Ann Jenner Gerd Larsen, Anthony Dowell, Monica Mason, Georgina Parkinson

Royal Opera House

28 Mar 1968 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett, Jon Vickers, David Kelly, John Shaw


29 Mar 1968 Birthday Offering, Marguerite & Armand, Jazz Calendar Glazounov, Liszt, Richard Rodney Bennett Conductor: John Lanchbery Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Monica Mason, Merle Park, Antointette Sibley, Georgina Parkinson, Michael Colman, Michael Somes, Derek Rencher,

Royal Opera House

1 Apr 1968 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes Martina Arroyo, Jon Vickers, David Kelly, Michael Langdon, John Shaw

Royal Opera House

10 Apr 1968 The Midsummer Marriage Michael Tippett Conductor: Colin Davis Alberto Remedios, Joan Carlyle, Raimund Herincx, Elizabeth Harwood, Lucette Aldous

David Kelly, Elizabeth Bainbridge

Royal Opera House

24 Apr 1968 Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: David Atherton Producer: Luchino Visconti Michael Langdon, Elizabeth Vaughan, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Rita Gorr, James McCracken, Cornell Macneil


26 Apr 1968 Les Sylphides, Boutique Fantasque, Mam’zelle Angot Chopin, Rossini (Respighi) Lecocq Choreography: Michel Fokine, L. Massine Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Shirley Grahame, David Wall, Brenda Last, Georgina Sibley, Loucette Aldous,

Royal Opera House

29 Apr - 8 Jun 1968

Opera & Ballet Booking Brochure Incl. Royal Danish Ballet

Royal Opera House Royal Danish Ballet

29 Apr 1968 1 May 1968 2 May 1968

The Royal Danish Ballet La Sylphide, Miraculous Mandarin, Napoli Act III, Bournonville, Bela Bartok, Conductors: Poul Jorgensen, Arne Hammelboe Separate casts for the 3 performances

Royal Opera House

3 May 1968 Otello Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Georg Solti Richard Cassilly, Tito Gobbi, Enriqueta Tarres John Lanigan, Anne Howells


9 May 1968 Mam’zelle Angot, Blood Wedding, Concerto Lecocq (Massine), Denis Apivor (Gacia Lorca) Shostakovich Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Brenda Last, Garry Grant, Shirley Grahame, Hendrik Davel, Elizabeth Anderton, David Wall, Doreen Wells, Jane Landon

Royal Opera House

14 May 1968 Otello Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Georg Solti Richard Cassilly, Giuseppe Taddei, Enriqueta Tarres, Anne Howells, John Lanigan


15 May 1968 Giselle Adolophe Adam Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Doreen Wells, David Wall, Kerrison Cooke, Adrian Grater, John Ryder, Sheron Koshley


17 May 1968 Giselle Adolphe Adam Conductor: Stewart Kershaw

Details as above


24 May 1968 Romeo & Juliet Prokofiev Choreography: Kenneth Macmillan Conductor: Emanuel Young Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Kenneth Mason, Desmond Doyle, Michael Somes


30 May 1968 Romeo & Juliet Conductor: John Lanchbery Details as above

Royal Opera House

6 Jun 1968 Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi Producer: Franco Feffirelli Conductor: Istvan Kertsz Geraint Evans, Yvonne Minton, Regina Resnik, John Shaw, Stuart Burrows

Royal Opera House

7 Jun 1968 Elektra Richard Strauss Conductor: Thomas Schippers Amy Shuard, Regina Resnik, Heather Begg, Enriqueta Tarres, Donald McIntyre, John Lanigan, Elizabeth Bainbridge

Royal Opera House

10 Jun - to 27 Jul 1968

Opera & Ballet Booking Details and Subscription Voucher Scheme Brochure


11 Jun 1968 Les Biches, Symphonic Variations, The Invitation Poulenc, Cesar Franck, Matyas Seiber Conductors: John Lanchbery, Emanuel Young Rosalind Eyre, Donald Macleary, Georgina Parkinson, Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Marilyn Trounson, Gerd Larsen


15 Jun 1968 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Production: Robert Helpmann Conductor: Emanuel Young Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Derek Rencher, Ann Jenner, Michael Coleman, Monica Mason, Alexander Grant


17 Jun 1968 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Production: Robert Helpmann Conductor: John Lanchbery Monica Mason, Donald Macleary, Derek Rencher, Gerd Larsen, Laura Connor Michael Coleman, Rosalind Eyre, Ria Peri


6 Jul 1968 Matinee

Intrusion, Napoli, Giselle Act II Schubert, Helsted/Paulli, Adam

Royal Ballet School Annual Performance

Conductor: Anthony Twiner Students of the Royal Ballet School Programme includes Alumni Booklet

Royal Opera House Gala Performance Queen Mother (Brochure)

4 Jul 1968

Cosi fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Georg Solti Luigi Alva, Josephine Veasey, Lucia Popp, Wladimiro Ganzstolli, Pilar Lorengar

Royal Opera House

12 Jul 1968 Cosi fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Producer: John Copley Conductor: Charles Mackerras Lucia Popp, Josephine Veasey, Pilar Lorengar Donald Grobe, Wladimiro Ganzstolli

Royal Opera House

27 Jul 1968 Billy Budd Benjamin Britten Conductor: Edward Downes Richard Lewis, John Shaw, David Kelly, Forbes Robinson, Robert Kerns,

Royal Opera House

28 Sep 1968 Gotterdammerung Richard Wagner Producer: Hans Hotter Conductor: Georg Solti Rita Hunter, Karl Josef Hering, Yvonne Minton, Amy Shuard, John Shaw, Heather Harper, Josephine Veasey, Gwyn Griffiths

Royal Opera House

30 Sep1968 Das Rheingold Richard Wagner Produced: Hans Hotter Conductor: Edward Downes Otakar Kraus, Josephine Veasey, David Ward Yvonne Minton, Elizabeth Bainbridge

Royal Opera House

1 Oct 1968 Die Walkure Richard Wagner Produced: Hans Hotter Conductor: Edward Downes David Ward, Ludmila Dvorakova, Michael Langdon, Josephene Veasey, Heather Begg Yvonne Minton, Gwyneth Jones

Royal Opera House

3 Oct 1968 Siegfried Richard Wagner Produced: Hans Hotter Conductor: Edward Downes Karl Josef Hering, Otakar Kraus, David Ward Michael Langdon, Ludmila Dvorakova

Royal Opera House

10 Oct - 7 Dec 1968

Royal Opera House Opera & Ballet Booking Brochures

9 Dec, 1 Feb. 1968 - 1969

Royal Opera House

14 Oct 1968 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes Gwyneth Jones, David Kelly, Charles Craig

Royal Opera House

19 Oct 1968 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Cond: Edward Downes, Gwyneth Jones, Charles Craig, Joseph Rouleau, David Kelly


25 Oct 1968 Apollo, Enigma Variations, Jazz Calendar Igor Stravinsky, Edward Elgar, Richard Rodney Bennett Conductors: Emanuel Young, John Lanchbery Robert Mead, Georgina Parkinson, Monica Mason, Svetlana Beriosova, Alexander Grant, Ria Peri, Merle Park, Ann Jenner

Royal Opera House

4 Nov 1968 Madama Butterfly Giacomo Puccini Conductor: James Lockhart Elizabeth Vaughan, Jean Bonhomme, Elizabeth Bainbridge, David Lennox


12 Nov 1968 Shadowplay, Lilac Garden, La Bayadere Charles Koechlin, Ernest Chausson, Ludwig Minkus Conductor: John Lanchbery Anthony Dowell, Svetlana Beriosova, Donald Macleary, Antoinette Sibley, Michael Coleman


25 Nov 1968 La Bayadere, Lilac Garden Jazz Calendar Ludwig Minkus Ernest Chausson, Richard Rodney Bennett Conductor: John Lanchbery Antoinette Sibley, Rudolf Nureyev, Anthony Dowell, Merle Park, Robert Mead

Royal Opera House

27 Nov 1968 Manon Lascaut Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Istvan Kertesz Marie Collier, Stuart Burrows, Robert Massard, Forbes Robinson

Royal Opera House

8 Jan 1969 Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi Production: Franco Zeffirelli Conductor: Edward Downes Peter Glossop, Elizabeth Harwood, Franco Tagliavini, Forbes Robinson, Joseph Rouleau

Royal Opera 9 Jan 1969 Cosi Fan Tutte

House Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Producer: John Copley Conductor: Charles Mackerras Luigi Alva, Elizabeth Soderstrom, Yvonne Minton, Lucia Popp, Robert Kerns, Kieth Engen

Royal Opera House (New Production)

24 Jan 1969 Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Richard Wagner Conductor: Georg Solti Jess Thomas, Bozena Ruk-Focic, David Ward Josephene Veasey, Hubert Hofmann, Geraint Evans, George Shirley

Royal Opera House

27 Jan 1969 Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Richard Wagner Conductor: Georg Solti See above for details


29 Jan 1969 Romeo and Juliet Serge Prokofiev Choreography: Kenneth Macmillan Conductor: John Lanchbery Margo Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Gary Sherwood, Desmond Doyle, Michael Somes, Gerd Larsen, Derek Rencher, Robert Mead


10 Feb 1969 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Production: Robert Helpmann Conductor: John Lanchbery Margo Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Keith Rosson, Gerd Larsen, Leslie Edwards


26 Feb 1969 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Conductor: John Lanchbery Main cast as above, but no company cast changes in this performance

Royal Opera House

28 Feb 1969 Otello Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli James McCracken, Peter Glossop, Gwyneth Jones, Ermanno Mauro, John Dobson

Royal Opera House

5 Mar 1969 Fidelio Ludwig van Beethoven Conductor: Otto Klemperer Anja Silja, Richard Cassilly, Donald McIntyre, Margaret Price, Forbes Robinson

Royal Opera House

3 Feb - 15 Mar 1969 17 Mar -3 May 1969

Opera & Ballet programme brochure Opera & Ballet programme brochure

Royal Opera House

14 Mar 1969 Fidelio Ludwig van Beethoven Conductor: Otto Klemperer See 5 Mar. for details

Royal Opera House

16 Apr 1969 Tosca Giacomo Puccini Producer: Franco Zeffirelli Conductor: Alexander Gibson Marie Collier, Gabriel Bacquier, Renato Cioni David Kelly, John Dobson, Dennis Wicks


22 Apr 1969 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Conductor: Christopher Ball Doreen Wells, David Wall, Sheila Humphreys Adrian Grater, David Gordon (Probably second level cast?)

Royal Opera House

5 May - 5 Jul 1969

Opera & Ballet Booking brochure

Royal Opera House

9 May 1969 Elektra Richard Strauss Conductor: Georg Solti Birgit Nilsson, Marie Collier, Regina Resnik, Yvonne Minton, Donald McIntyre, Charles Craig, Dennis Wicks

Royal Opera House

13 May 1969 Elektra Richard Strauss Conductor: Georg Solti See above for details

Royal Opera House

20 May 1969 Simon Boccanera Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Charles Mackerras Original Production: Tito Gobbi Peter Glossop, David Ward, Elizabeth Vaughan, Delme Bryn-Jones, Elizabeth Shelley, Hugh Sheehan

Royal Opera House

27 May 1969 Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten Conductor: Colin Davis Jon Vickers, Delme Bryn-Jones, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Heather Harper, Geraint Evans

Royal Opera House

29 May 1969 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Charles Mackerras Charles Craig, Grace Bumbry, Martina Arroyo, Joseph Rouleau, John Shaw

Royal Opera House

5 Jun 1969 Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten Conductor: Colin Davis Jon Vickers, Delme Bryn-Jones, Kenneth MacDonald, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Heather Harper, Geraint Evans

Royal Opera House Bolshoi Ballet Season

7 July – 2 Aug 1969

Bolshoi Ballet Season Booking Form Brochure

Royal Opera House Bolshoi Ballet

9 Jul 1969 Swan Lake Tchaikovsky Conductor: Algis Zhuraytis Nina Timofeyeva, Nikolai Fadeyechev, Vladimir Koshelev, Elena Vanke


10 Jul 1969 Nutcracker Tchaikovsky Conductor: Alexander Kopylov Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Alla Shcherbinina, Vladimir Levashov Herman Sitnikov, Alexander Lavrenuk


11 Jul 1969 Nutcracker See above for details


19 Jul 1969 Spartacus Aram Khatchaturian Conductor: Algis Zhuraytis Mihail Lavrovsky, Maris Liepa, Natalia Bessmertnova, Nina Timofeyeva, Shamil Yagudin, Valeri Antonov, Vasily Vorokhobko


21 Jul 1969 Spartacus Aram Khatchaturian Conductor: Algis Zhuraytis See 19 Jul. for details


23 Jul 1969 Don Quixote, Chopiniana, Carmen Suite Ludwig Minkus, Chopin, Georges Bizet Conductor: Alexander Kopylov Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Ida Vasilieva, Boris Akimov, Tatiana Golikova Maya Plisekskaya, Nikolai Fedeyechev

Royal Opera House

30 Sep 1969 Les Troyens (The Trojans) Hector Berlioz Conductor: Colin Davis Janet Baker, Heather Begg, David Kelly, Edgar Evans, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Anja Silja, Jon Vickers, Aspassia Papathanassiou

Royal Opera 25 Oct 1969 Enigma Variations, Symphonic Variations,

House La Bayadere (Elgar, Cesar Franck, Minkus) Conductor: John Lanchbery Derek Rencher, Svetlana Beriosova, Alexander Grant, Georgina Parkinson, Antoinette Sibley, Wayne Sleep, Donald Macleary, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Monica Mason, Deanne Bergsma

Royal Opera House

17 Nov - 19 Feb 1969-70

Opera & Ballet Booking Brochures, Incl. Fonteyn bookings, Benevolent Fund Bookings and programme details

Royal Opera House

22 Jan 1970 Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi Producer: Luchino Visconti Conductor: Edward Downes Don Garrard, Martina Arroyo, Elizabeth Bainbridge, John Shaw, James McCracken


25 Feb 1970 Monotones, Le Corsaire, Lament of the Waves, Marguerite & Armand Eric Satie, Drigo, Masson, Liszt Conductor: John Lanchbery Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Michael Somes, Marilyn Trounson, Georgina Parkinson, Anthony Dowell

Royal Opera House

1970/1971 Brochures Schedule 1970/71 Season Subscription Voucher Scheme 1969/70 Subscription Voucher Scheme 1970/71 Bookings Opera & Ballet 20 Feb, 25 Jul 1970 Wagner’s Ring Bookings 9 Sep, 3 Oct 1970

Royal Opera House

11 Apr 1970 Birthday Offering, Enigma Variations, Façade (Glazunov, Elgar, William Walton) Conductor: John Lanchbery Merle Park, Monica Mason, Donald Macleary Derek Rencher, Alexander Grant, Antoinette Sibley, Wayne Sleep, Ann Jenner

Royal Opera House

12 Jun 1970 Salome Richard Strauss Conductor: Georg Solti Grace Bumbry, Norman Bailey, Ragnar Ulfung, Josephine Veasey, Ronald Dowd, John Lanigan, Ermanno Mauro, Yvonne Minton, Bruce Martin, Celia Penney

Royal Opera House

30 Jun 1970 A Tribute to Sir David Webster Gala Performance, Brochure

Royal Opera House

17 Jul 1970 The Midsummer Marriage Michael Tippett Conductor: Colin Davis Alberto Remedios, Joan Carlyle, Raymond

Herincx, Elizabeth Harwood, Stuart Burrows, Robert Mead, Monica Mason (Dancers)


18 Jul 1970 Cinderella Serge Prokofiev Choreography: Frederick Ashton Conductor: John Lanchbery, Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann Georgina Parkinson, Wayne Sleep, Derek Rencher, Deanne Bergsma

Royal Opera House

20 Jul 1970 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes Felicia Weathers, Joseph Rouleau, Charles Craig, Fiorenza Cossotto, Gwynne Howell, Delme Bryn-Jones

Royal Opera House

24 Jul 1970 Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton CH CBE Produced: John Hart & Michael Somes Narration: Robert Helpmann Conductor: John Lanchbery and Full Company

Royal Opera House American Ballet Theatre

8 Aug 1970 Les Noces, Pillar of Fire, Etudes Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Riisager Conductors: Akira Endo, & Jaime Leon Includes Booking Brochure

Royal Opera House

1 Oct 1970 Siegfried Richard Wagner Musical Director: Georg Solti Conductor: Edward Downes Karl-Josef Hering, Amy Shuard, David Ward

Royal Opera House

9 Oct 1970 Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi Musical Director: Georg Solti Production: Luchino Visconti Conductor: Edward Downes Leontyne Price, Joseph Rouleau, Heather Begg

13 Oct 1970 Il Trovatore See above for details

(First Performance)

2 Dec 1970 The Knot Garden Michael Tippett Musical Director: Georg Solti Producer: Peter Hall Conductor: Colin Davis Yvonne Minton, Robert Tear, Thomas Hemsley, Raimund Herincx

23 Dec 1970 Lucia di Lammermoor Gaetano Donizetti

Musical Director: Georg Solti Producer: Franco Zeffirelli Conductor: John Pritchard Beverley Sills, Delme Bryn-Jones, Heather Begg, Giacomo Aragall

(Ballet) 26 Dec 1970

La Fille mal Gardee Ferdinand Herold Director: Kenneth Macmillan Conductor: Anthony Twiner Ronald Emblem, Brenda Last, David Wall

In the presence of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in aid of Royal Opera House Benevolent Fund

10 Feb 1971 Eugene Onegin Piotr Tchaikovsky Conductor: Georg Solti Producer: Peter Hall Yvonne Minton, Robert Tear, Victor Braun

13 Feb 1971 Eugene Onegin See above for production details

24 Mar 1971 Cosi Fan Tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Colin Davis Ryland Davies, Robert Kerns, Geraint Evans, Elizabeth Soderstrom, Anne Howells Graziella Sciutti

26 Mar 1971 La Sonnambula Vincenzo Bellini Conductor: Carlo Felice Cillario Renata Scotto, Heather Begg, Stuart Burrows, Forbes Robinson

27 Apr 1971 Parsifal Richard Wagner Conductor: Reginald Goodall John Vickers, Michael Langdon, Amy Shuard

14 Jun 1971 Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner Conductor: Georg Solti Ludmila Dvorakova, Jess Thomas, David Ward, Josephene Veasey, Donald McIntyre

(Ballet) 22 Jul 1971 Anastasia Tchaikovsky & Martinu Choreography Kenneth Macmillan Svetlana Beriskova, Derek Rencher

(Ballet) 23 Jun 1971 Apollo: Igor Stravinsky, George Balanchine Conductor: John Lanchbery Rudolf Nureyev, Svetlana Beriosova

Song of the Earth, Gustav Mahler, Kenneth Macmillan Conductor: Colin Davis Antoinette Sibley, Donald MacLeary Margtuerite & Armand Franz Liszt: Conductor: John Lanchbery Frederick Ashton, Cecil Beaton Margo Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Michael Somes

4 Jan 1972 Tosca Giacomo Puccini Producer: Franco Zeffirelli Conductor: Edward Downes Placido Domingo, Gwyneth Jones, Kostas Paskalis, Gwynne Howell

(Bavarian State Opera Munich)

7 - 10 Mar 1972 Ariadne auf Naxon Richard Strauss Conductors: Wolfgang Sawallisch, Heinrich Hollreiser James King, Ingrid Bjoner, Claire Watson Capriccio Richard Strauss Producer: Rudolf Hartmann Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner Claire Watson, Hans Gunther Nocker Die Schweigsame Frau Richard Strauss Ben Johnson, Stefan Zweig Producer: Gunther Rennert, Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch Kurt Bohme, Martha Modl, Barry McDaniel

(Ballet) 17 Apr 1972 Dances at a Gathering Frederick Chopin Rudolf Nureyev Poeme de l’extase Scriabin Choreography: John Cranko Margot Fonteyn Raymonda Act III Glazunov Choreography: Rudolf Nureyev Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev

20 Apr 1972 Jenufa Leos Janacek Production: Ande Anderson Conductor: Charles Mackerras Lorna Haywood, Heather Begg, Otakar Kraus,

Amy Shuard, Richard Cassily

(Ballet) 21 Jun 1972 Afternoon of a Faun Debussy Choreography: Jerome Robbins Conductor: John Lanchbery Deanne Bergsma, David Wall Giselle Adolphe Adam Conductor: John Lanchbery Natalia Makarova, Anthony Dowell, Monica Mason, Ronald Plaisted, Derek Rencher

4 Jul 1972 La Traviata Giuseppe Verdi Producer: John Copley Conductor: Carlo Felice Cillario Montserrat Caballe, Nicolai Gedda, Heather Begg, Richard Van Allan

3 Apr 1973 Aida Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Charles Mackerras Carlo Bergonzi, Gilda Cruz-Roma, Forbes Robinson, Kiri Te Kanawa

(Ballet) 4 Aug 1973 The Sleeping Beauty Tchaikovsky Producer: Kenneth Macmillan Conductor: Emanuel Young Leslie Edwards, Gerd Larsen, Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Ronald Plaisted Alexander Grant, Deanne Bergsma

(Ballet) 13 Oct 1973 In the Night (Chopin) The Seven Deadly Sins (Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht) Song of the Earth (Gustav Mahler) Director: Kenneth Macmillan, Conductor: Ashley Lawrence William McAlpine, Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, David Wall, Monica Mason

First London Performance Venice in Peril Fund

18 Oct 1973 Death in Venice Benjamin Britten Thomas Mann, with Myfanwy Piper Conductor: Steuart Bedford Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, James Bowman, Deanne Bergsma, Robert Huguenin (Royal Ballet Dancers)

14 Dec 1973 La Forza del destino Giuseppe Verdi

Sets: Sam Wanamaker, Michael Knight Conductor: Giuseppe Patane Sherrill Millnes, Robert Lloyd, Martina Arroyo

Royal Opera House

31 Dec - 23 Feb Jun-Jul 1973/1974

Booking Brochures (Also “The Story of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden” by Midland Bank)

2 Mar 1974 La Boheme Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Robin Stapleton Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Thomas Allen, Peter Glossop

(Ballet) 12 Mar 1974 Manon Jules Massenet Producer: Kenneth Macmillan Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, David Wall, Monica Mason, Wayne Sleep

1 Apr 1974 Boris Godunov Modest Mussorgsky (with Nicholas Rimsky- Korsakov Conductor: David Lloyd Jones Nicolai Ghiaurov, Robert Bickerstaff, Gwynne Howell, John Lanigan, Ion Buzea

3 Apr 1974 La Traviata Giuseppe Verdi Production: Luchino Visconti, John Copley, Conductor: John Pritchard Jose Carreras, Ileana Cotrubas, Gillian Knight, Elizabeth Bainbridge

6 Apr 1974 Salome Richard Strauss Conductor: Christoph von Dohnanyi Gwynneth Jones, Adrian de Peyer, Norman Bailey, Heather Begg, Ragnbard Ulfung

First Performance at the Royal Opera House

22 Apr 1974 La clemenza de Tito Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Colin Davis Yvonne Minton, Janet Baker, Anne Howells, Robert Lloyd, Eric Tappy

Royal Opera House

2 May 1974 Don Pasquale Donizetti Conductor: John Matheson Luiga Alva, Geraint Evans, Seso Bruscantini Elizabeth Harwood

Royal Opera House

14 May 1974 Tosca Giacomo Puccini Producer: Franco Zeffirelli

Conductor: David Atherton Grace Bumbry, Giorgio Merighi, Ingvar Wixell, Gwynne Howell, John Dobson

Royal Opera House

18 May 1974 La clemenza di Tito Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: David Shaw Yvonne Minton, Janet Baker, Anne Howells Eric Tappy, Robert Lloyd

Royal Opera House

4 Jun 1974 Jenufa Leos Janacek Conductor: Maurits Sillem Wendy Fine, Heather Begg, Amy Shuard, Gregory Dempsey, Richard van Allan

Royal Opera House

10 Jun 1974 Jenufa Leos Janacek Conductor: Charles Mackerras Cast as above.

Royal Opera House

1973 - 1974 25 Feb - 30 Mar 1975 - 1976 Jun - Jul 1977 - 1978 Feb - May

Booking Brochure Incl. Gala in Honour of President of French Republic & Martha Graham Dance Company

Royal Opera House

Oct 1970 -Jul 1972

20 Schedules & Booking Forms Providing full details of complete programmes

Royal Opera House Ballet

11 Oct 1974 Scenes de ballet Stravinsky Elite Sycopations (12 most by Scott Joplin) Song of the Earth: Mahler Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Piano Conductor: Philip Gammon Jennifer Penney, Anthony Dowell, Merle Park, Donald MacLeary, Monica Mason Michael Coleman, Wayne Sleep, David Wall Georgina Parkinson, Vergie Derman

Royal Opera House Production Recorded for Television

20 Oct 1974 La Boheme Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Robin Stapleton Helena Dose, Veriano Luchetti, Benjamin Luxon, Thomas Allan


23 Oct 1974 Raymonda Act III, The Two Pigeons Alexander Glazunov, Andre Messager Conductor: Emanuel Young Raymonda Choreography: Rudolf Nureyev Georgina Parkinson, David Wall 2 Pigeons Choreography: Frederick Ashton Lesley Collier, David Ashmole

Royal Opera House

7 Nov 1974 Boris Godunov Modest Mussorgsky Conductor: Yuri Ahronovitch Boris Chrisotoff, Josephine Veasey, Robert Tear, John Lanigan, Richard van Allan, Robert Lloyd, Gwynne Howell

Royal Opera House

17 Dec 1974 Pelleas et Melisande Claude Debussy Text: Maurice Maeterlinck Conductor: Colin Davis Ileana Cotrubas, Richard Stillwell, Yvonne Minton, Joseph Rouleau, Thomas Stewart


7 Jan 1975 Enigma Variations, Elite Syncopations, Daphnis & Chloe (Edward Elgar, Scott Joplin, Maurice Ravel) Conductors: Ashley Lawrence, Philip Gammon Derek Rencher, Rosalind Eyre, Alexander Grant, Anthony Dowell, Ria Peri, Leslie Collier, David Ashmole, Julian Hosking, Anthoinette Sibley, Georgina Parkinson


31 Jan 1975 Agon, Four Schumann Pieces, La Bayadere Stravinsky, Schumann, Ludwig Minkus Argon Choreography: George Balanchine Vergie, Rudolf Nureyev, Laura Connor David Wall, David Ashmole, Wendy Ellis, Reri Peri Alberni String Quartet Antoinette Sibley, Rudolf Nureyev

Royal Opera House

3 Feb 1975 Un ballo in maschera Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Claudio Abbado Placido Domingo, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, Reri Grist


12 Feb 1975 La Fille mal gardee Ferdinand Harold Conductor: Anthony Twiner Merle Park, Rudolf Nureyev, Alexander Grant, Derek Rencher, Wayne Sleep.

Royal Opera House

21 Feb 1975 Tannhauser Richard Wagner Conductor: Edward Downes Producer: Elijah Moshinsky Richard Cassilly, Josephine Veasey, Gwynne Howell, William McAlpine, Robert Lloyd


3 Mar 1975 Les Sylphides, Enigma Variations, Raymonda Act III (Chopin, Elgar, Glazunov) Conductors: Adrian Boult, Emanuel Young Georgina Parkinson, Anthony Dowell, Derek

Rencher, Monica Mason, Rudolf Nureyev


5 Mar 1975 Enigma Variations (Edward Elgar) The Four Seasons (Giuseppe Verdi) The Concert (Frederick Chopin) Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Ria Peri, Vergie Derman, Lesley Collier, Monica Mason, David Wall, Anthony Dowell Lynne Seymour, Michael Coleman, Derek, Rencher, Rosalind Eyre, Brian Shaw


7 Mar 1975 Dances at a Gathering (Frederick Chopin) Choreography: Jerome Robins, Leslie Collier, Laura Connor, Monica Mason, Jennifer Penney, Lynn Seymour, David Ashmole, Michael Coleman, Anthony Dowell Rudolf Nureyev, David Wall Daphnis & Chloe (Maurice Ravel) Jenney Penney, Anthony Dowell, Dereck Rencher, Wayne Sleep, David Drew Conductor: Ashley Lawrence

Royal Opera House

7 Oct 1975 Das Rheingold Richard Wagner Conductor: Reginald Goodall Zoltan Kelemen, Josephine Veasey, David Ward, Jeannine Altmeyer, Robert Tear

Royal Opera House

9 Oct 1975 Die Walkure Richard Wagner Donald McIntyre, Richard Cassilly, Eszter Kovac, Aage Haugland, Katalin Kasza, Josephine Veasey, Milla Andrew


11 Dec 1975 The Four Seasons, Rituals, Les Biches (Verdi, Bartok, Poulenc) Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Vergie Derman, Georgina Parkinson, Michael Coleman, David Wall, David Ashmole, David Drew, Monica Mason, Natalia Makarova, Rosalind Eyre


29 Dec 1975 Cinderella (Sergey Prokofiev) Choreography: Frederick Ashton Conductor: Barry Wordsworth Natalia Makarova, Anthony Dowell, Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann Leslie Edwards, Ria Peri

Royal Opera House

10 Feb 1976 Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci (Mascagni, Leoncavallo) Conductor: Robin Stapleton Placido Domingo, Gian-Piero Mastromei, Thomas Allen, Heather Begg


12 Feb 1976 Serenade, Month in the Country, Petrushka (Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Stravinsky) Choreography: Balanchine, Ashton Fokine Conductors: Ashley Lawrence, John Lanchbery Georgina Parkinson, Merle Park, Monica Mason, Lynn Seymour, Alexander Grant, Derek Rencher, Wayne Sleep, Jennifer Penney, David Ashmole, Adrian Grater

Royal Opera House, Teatro alla Scala, Milan

3 Mar 1976 La Cenerentola (Rossini) Conductor: Claudio Abbado Teresa Berganza, Luigi Alva, Paolo Montarsolo, Enzo Daro, Margherita Guglielmi, Claudio Desderi

Royal Opera House, Teatro alla Scala, Milan

4 Mar 1976 Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) Conductor: Claudio Abbado Piero Cappuccilli, Ruggero Raimondi, Mirella Freni, Felici Schiavi,

Royal Opera House

28 May 1976 I Lombardi Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli Jose Carreras, Heather Begg, Robert Lloyd, Michael Langdon, Elizabeth Connell

Royal Opera House

21 Jun 1976 Un ballo in maschera (The Masked Ball) Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edwaqrd Downes Luciano Pavarotte, Renato Bruson, Patricia Payne, Martina Arroyo, Reri Grist


5 Apr 1977 La Bayadere, Triad, The Fourth Symphony (Minkus, Prokofiev, Mahler) Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Monica Mason, David Wall, Jennifer Penney, Julian Hosking, Wayne Sleep, Lynn Seymour

Royal Opera House

25 Apr 1977 Faust Charles Gounod Conductor: Peter Maag Alfredo Kraus, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Thomas Allen, William Elvin, Ann Murray

Royal Opera House

10 Jun 1977 La fanciulla del West (Girl of the Golden West) Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Zubin Mehta Placido Domingo, Carol Neblett, Silvani Carroli, Francis Egerton, Robert Lloyd

Royal Opera House

23 Dec 1977 Maria Stuarda Gaetano Donizetti Conductor: Richard Bonynge Joan Sutherland, Huguette Tourangeau, Stuart Burrows, Heather Begg, Richard Van

Allan, David Ward


21 Feb 1978 Mayerling Franz Liszt Conductor: John Lanchbery Michael Somes, Monica Mason, Jennifer Penney, Gerd Larsen, Derek Rencher,

Royal Opera House

24 Jun 1978 Luisa Miller Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Lorin Maazel Leo Nucci, Katia Ricciarelli, Luciano Pavarotti Richard Van Allan, Gwynne Howell Elizabeth Connell


4 Dec 1978 Les Sylphides, Birthday Offering, Jazz Calendar (Chopin, Glazunov, Richard Rodney Bennett) Conductor: Emanuel Young Marguerite Porter, David Wall, Wendy Ellis, Vergie Derman, Derek Rencher,

Royal Opera House

11 Jan 1979 Salome Richard Strauss Conductor: Zubin Mehta Hildegard Behrens, Richard Cassilly, Josephine Veasey, Robin Leggate, Siegmund Nimsgern, Francis Egerton, Malcolm King

Royal Opera House

15 Jun 1979 Luisa Miller Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Lorin Maazel Renato Bruson, Katia Ricciarelli, Placido Domingo, Richard Van Allan, Gwynne Howell Elizabeth Connell

Royal Opera House

1 Apr 1980 Lucrezia Borgia Gaetano Donizetti Conductor: Richard Bonynge Producer: John Copely Joan Sutherland, Jonathan Summers, Stafford Dean, Anne Howells, Paul Hudson

Royal Opera House

23 Jun 1980 Norma Vincenzo Bellini Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli Sylvia Sass, Charles Craig, Robert Lloyd, Agnes Baltsa, Elizabeth Bainbridge

Royal Opera House

11 - 27 Sep 1980

Der Ring des Nibelungen Richard Wagner Conductor: Colin Davis Yvonne Minton, Rolf Kuhne, Uta-Maria Flake, Robert Tear, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Peter Hofmann, Donald McIntyre, Berit Lindholm, Albert Remedios, Norman Bailey, Gwyneth

Jones, Fritz Hubner, Rudolf Constantin

Royal Opera House

14 Oct 1980 Lucia di Lammermoor Gaetano Donizetti Conductor: Jesus Lopez-Cobos Production: Franco Zeffirelli Katia Ricciarelli, Jose Carreras, John Dobson, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Giorgio Zancanaro

Royal Opera House

1 Jan 1981 L’elisir d’amore Gaetano Donizetti Conductor: Claudio Scimone Producer: John Copley Nicolai Gedda, Daniela Mazzucato, Alberto Rinaldi, Geraint Evans, Yvonne Kenny

Royal Opera House

27 Mar 1981 Macbeth Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Riccardo Muti Renato Bruson, Renata Scotto, Robert Lloyd Robert Tear, Neil Shicoff, Marcus Lloyd


1 Apr 1981 Manon Jules Massenet Conductor: John Lanchbery Marguerite Porter, Monica Mason, Derek Deane, Derek Rencher, Gerd Larsen

Royal Opera House

20 Apr 1981 Lohengrin Richard Wagner Conductor: Edward Downes Producer: Elijah Moshinsky Peter Jurgen Schmidt, Jonathan Summers, Heather Harper, Manfred Schenk, Eva Randova, Donald McIntyre

Royal Opera House :5Oth Anniversary Ballet Season

8 May 1981 The Dream, A Month in the Country, La Fin du Jour (Mendelssohn, Chopin, Ravel) Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Jennifer Penny, Wayne Eagling, Marguerite Porter, David Drew, Merle Park,

Royal Opera House The Palace Theatre Manchester

7 - 30 May 1981 Tosca Giacomo Puccini Production: Franco Zeffirelli Conductor: Garcia Navarro Franco Bonisolli, Grace Bumbry, Joseph Rouleau Donald McIntyre, Eric Garrett


7 - 30 May 1981 Lohengrin Richard Wagner Production: Elijah Moshinsky Conductor: Edward Downes Peter Hofmann, Heather Harper, Jonathan

Summers, Manfred Schenk, Eva Randova


7 - 30 May 1981 Otello Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Colin Davis Carlo Cossutta, Stefka Evstatieva, Piero Cappuccilli, Robin Leggate, Elizabeth Bainbridge


7 - 30 May 1981 Die Zauberflote Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Maurits Sillem Stuart Burrows, Yvonne Kenny, Jonathan Summers, Zdzislawa Donat, Thomas Thomaschke, Elaine Mary Hall

Royal Opera House (Ballet 50th Anniversary)

2 Jun 1981 Sinfonietta, The Two Pigeons Malcolm Williamson, Andre Messager Conductor: Barry Wordsworth Nicola Katrak, Kim Reeder, Maron Tait, Carl Myers, Janis Parsons

Royal Opera House Mozart Festival

14 Jul 1981 Cosi fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Colin Davis Stuart Burrows, Thomas Allen, Richard Van Allan, Kiri Te Kanawa, Agnes Baltsa,


21 Oct 1981 Isadora Richard Rodney Bennett Conductor: Ashley Lawrence Merle Park, Julie Wood, Rosalind Eyre, Julian Hosking, Derek Deane, Monica Mason

Royal Opera House

9 Nov 1981 Tosca Giacomo Puccini Production: Franco Zeffirelli Conductor: Silvio Varviso Placido Domingo, Gwyneth Jones, Ingvar Wixell

Royal Opera House

1 Jan 1982 Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi Production: Luchino Visconti Conductor: Richard Bonynge Joan Sutherland, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Yuri Masurok, Franco Bonisolli, Elena Obraztotsova

Royal Opera House

14 Jan 1982 Les Contes d’Hoffmann Jacques Offenbach Producer: John Schlesinger Conductor: Jacques Delacote Placido Domingo & William Lewis, Diana Montague, Geraint Evans, Josephine Veasey, Thomas Allen, Leona Mitchell

Royal Opera 17 Mar 1982 Enigma Variations, L’Invitation au voyage, The

House (Ballet) Walk to the Paradise Garden, Rapsody Elgar, Delius, Rachmaninov, Duparc Conductor: Adam Gatehouse Derek Rencher, Monica Mason, Diana Montague, Merle Park, David Wall, Anthony Dowell, Lesley Collier, Antoinette Sibley

Royal Opera House

28 Jun 1982 La clemenza di Tito Mozart Conductor: Jeffrey Tate Gosta Winbergh, Deanne Bergsma, Yvonne Minton, Yvonne Kenny, John Tomlinson

Royal Opera House Stravinsky Festival

29 Dec 1982 The Rake’s Progress Igor Stravinsky Conductor: David Atherton Robert Tear, John Tomlinson, Helen Donath, Matthew Best, Donald McIntyre, Sara Walker

Royal Opera House

20 Jan 1983 Samson et Dalila Camille Saint Saens Conductor: Georges Pretre, Jonathan Summers, Gwynne Howell

Royal Opera House, New York City Ballet

23 Aug 1983 Mozartiana, Piano Pieces, Symphony in Three Movements (Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky) Cond: Robert Irving, Pianist: Jerry Zimmerman Suzanne Farrell, Ib Andersen, Lisa Hess Heather Watts, Victor Castelli, Bart Cook

Royal Opera House

17 Sep 1983 Lulu Alban Berg Conductor: Colin Davis Jonathan Summers, Karan Armstrong, Gunter Reich, Ryszard Karczykowski, Erik Saeden

Royal Opera House

16 Jan 1984 Wozzeck Alban Berg Conductor: Christoph von Dohnanyi Jose Van Dam, Hermann Winkler, Donald McIntyre, Kim Begley, Anja Silja


11 May 1984 Agon, (Stravinsky) Return of the Strange Land (Janacek Fleeting Figures (Josef Suk) Conductor: Ashley Lawrence

Royal Opera House

15 Feb 2000 Otello Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Gianluigi Gelmetti Bruce Ford, Octavio Arevalo, Mariella Devia

Royal Opera House (In Rehearsal)

18 Sep 2000

Billy Budd Benjamin Britten Conductor: Richard Hickox Simon Keenlyside, Graeme Broadbent, Kim Begley

Royal Opera House (In Rehearsal) Ballet

27 Oct 2000

Shadowplay Charles Koechlin Choreography: Antony Tudor Conductor: Graham Bond

Royal Opera House (In Rehearsal)

28 Mar 2001

I Capuleti e I Montecchi Vincenzo Bellini Conductor: Bruno Campanella Lorenzo Begazzo, Eldar Aliev, Tito Beltran

Royal Opera House (International Concert Series)

8 Jun 2001 Angela Gheorghiu in Concert Conductor: Ion Marin Rinaldo, Le nozze di Figaro, Manon, Louise, Turandot, Madama Butterfly, Adriana Lecouvreur, Norma

Royal Opera House

Sep/Oct 2001 Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes Paolo Gavanelli, Christine Schafer, Marcelo Alvarex, Graeme Broadbent

Royal Opera House

12 Apr 2002 Tristan Und Isolde Richard Wagner Conductor: Bernard Haitink Lisa Gasteen, Wolfgang Muller-Lorenz, Quinten Hayes, Petra Lang, Alan Titus

Royal Opera House

8 - 10 Jul 2002 Roberto Devereux Gaetano Donizetti Conductor: Maurizio Benini Jose Bros, Nelly Miricioiu, Graeme Broadbent, Sonia Ganassi, Robin Leggate

Royal Opera House

3 Sept 2002

Ariadne auf Naxos Richard Strauss Conductor: Antonio Pappano Thomas Allen, Petra Lang, Christoph Quest, Sophie Koch, Robert Brubaker

Royal Opera House

17 Sept 2002 Ariadne auf Naxos Richard Strauss Conductor: Antonio Pappano Thomas Allen, Christoph Quest, Petra Lang, Sophie Koch, Marlis Petersen

Royal Opera House

30 Sep -19 Oct 2002

I Masnadieri Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Edward Downes Director: Elijah Moshinsky Dimitri Hvorostovsky, Paula Delligatti, Edgaras Montvidas, Eric Halfvarson

Royal Opera House

24 Feb 2003 Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi

Conductor: Antonio Pappano Robert Tear, Bryn Terfel, Stephanie Blythe, Peter Hoare, Marie Mc Laughlin

Royal Opera House

8 Apr 2003 Elektra Richard Strauss Conductor: Semyon Bychkov Lisa Gasteen, John Tomlinson, Felicity Palmer, Anne Schwanewilms, Siegfried Jerusalem

Royal Opera House

17 Feb 2004 Les Contes d’Hoffmann Jacques Offenbach Conductor: Richard Hickox Rolando Villazon, Vassiliki Karayanni, Willard W. White, Robin Leggate, Ruxandra Dononose

Royal Opera House

18 Mar 2004 Samson et Dalila Camille Saint-Saens Conductor: Philippe Jordan Jose Cura, Denyce Graves,

Royal Opera House

14 Apr 2004 Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Dimitry Shostakovich Katarina Dalayman, John Tomlinson, Stefan Margita, Christopher Ventris

Royal Opera House

7 Jun 2004 Arabella Richard Strauss Conductor: Christoph von Dohnanyi Barbara Bonney, Karita Mattila, Thomas Hampson, Christopher Lackner

Royal Opera House

23 Sep 2004 The Greek Passion Bohuslav Martinu Conductor: Charles Mackerras Peter Sidhom, Richard Angas, Adrian Clarke, Timothy Robinson, Douglas Nasrawi

Royal Opera House

12 Nov 2004 La Rondine Giacomo Puccini Emmanuel Villaume Angela Gheorghiu, Annamaria dell’Oste, Robert Lloyd, Kurt Streit, Deborah Peake-Jones, Glenys Groves

Royal Opera House

5 Oct 2005 Maskarade Carl Nielsen Conductor: Michael Schonwandt Brindley Sherratt, Kari Hamney Robin Leggate, Emma Bell

Royal Opera House

16 Nov 2005 The Midsummer Marriage Michael Tippett Conductor: Richard Hickox Will Hartmann, Amanda Roocroft

Brindley Sherratt, Diana Montague

Royal Opera House

6 Jan 2006 The Bartered Bride Bedrich Smetana Conductor: Charles Mackerras Susan Gritton, Robert Tear, Yvette Bonner

Royal Opera House

1 Mar 2006 Macbeth Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg Thomas Hampson, Violeta Urmana, Joseph Calleja, John Relyea

Royal Opera House

7 Mar 2006 Wozzeck Alban Berg Conductor: Daniel Harding Johan Reuter, Peter Bronder, Susan Bullock

Royal Opera House

5 Apr 2006 Eugene Onegin Pyotr Il’ych Tchaikovsky Conductor: Philippe Jordan Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Amanda Roocroft, Rolando Villazon, Sarah Pring,

Royal Opera House

11 May 2006 Cyrano de Bergerac Franco Alfano Mark Elder Placido Domingo, Sondra Radvanovsky, Jeremy White, Mark Stone

Royal Opera House

2 Jun 2006 Duke Bluebeard’s Castle Bela Bartok Ewartung, Arnold Schoenberg Conductor: Kirill Petrenko Albert Dohmen, Petra Lang, Katalin Bogyay, Angela Denoke, Barry Callan

Royal Opera House

22 Jul 2006 Turandot Gisacomo Puccini Conductor: Stefan Soltesz Audrey Stottler, Yu Qiang Dai, Susan Gritton, Arutjun Kotchinian, Francis Egerton

Royal Opera House

3 Oct 2006 Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Dimitry Shostakovich Conductor: Antonio Pappano Eva-Marie Westbroek, John Tomlinson, John Daszak, Christopher Ventris

Royal Opera House

7 Apr 2007 L’Heure Espagnole & Gianni Schicchi Maurice Ravel & GiacomoPuccini Conductor: Antonio Pappano Bonaventura Bottone, Christine Rice, Bryn Terfel, Dina Kuznetsova

Royal Opera 2 Jul 2007 Katya Kabanova

House Leos Janacek Conductor: Charles Mackerras Director: Trevor Nunn Janice Watson, Oleg Bryjak, Kurt Streit, Anne Mason, Toby Spence, Felicity Palmer

Parma Teatro Regio

1968 - 1969 Stiffelio (Verdi), Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni), La Sonnambula (Bellini) Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Manon Lascaut (Puccini), La Passione Greca (Martinu), La Fiera di Sorocinzi (Mussorgsky)

La Scala Milan, (Teatro alla Scala)

7 Dec 1971 Simon Boccanegra Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Claudio Abbado Piero Cappuccilli, Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Felice Schiavi

Scottish National Opera King’s Theatre Glasgow

15 May 1968 Gotterdammerung Richard Wagner Conductor: Alexander Gibson Berit Lindholm, John Shaw, Raympond Myers Ticho Parly, Louis Hendrikx

Die Wiener Staatsoper Vienna Opera Conductors: Herbert van Karajan, Leopold Ludwig, Josef Krips, Nelo Santi, Heinz Wallberg, Georges Pretre Wilhelm Loibner Karl Bohm, M. Zallinger, Joseph Keilberth, Berislav Klobucar, Jaroslav Krombholc

May, Jun 1964 Der Troubadour (Verdi), La Boheme (Puccini), Cardillac (Hindemith), Jenufa (Janacek), Parsifal (Wagner), A Masked Ball (Verdi), Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Mozart), Tannhauser (Wagner), Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) Pagliaci (Leoncavallo) Flying Dutchman (Wagner), Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), The Bartered Bride (Smetana), Fidelio (Beethoven), Othello (Verdi) Capriccio (Strauss), Madame Butterfly ( Puccini), Tosca (Puccini), Die Frau ohne Schatten (Strauss), Der Rosenkavalier, (Strauss), Aida (Verdi) Tristan und Isolde (Wagner), Don Giovanni (Mozart), Intermezzo (Strauss), Carmen (Bizet), Turandot (Puccini), Arabella (Strauss), Die Walkure (Wagner), Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart) The Force of Destiny (Verdi), The Magic Flute (Mozart), Cenerentola (Rossini)

Der Wiener Staatsoper

Jun 1965 Der Rosenkavalier, Capriccio (Strauss) Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) Siegfried, Gotterdammerung, Lohengrin (Wagner) Jenufa (Janacek) The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky) Don Carlos, La Traviata

(Verdi), Carmen (Bizet), Tosca Puccini)

Welsh National Opera

15 Mar - 25 Apr 1978

Elektra Richard Strauss Conductor: Richard Armstrong Pauline Tinsley, Willard White, Debria Brown

Welsh National Opera (Festival)

11 Dec 1979 The Makropoulos Case Leos Janacek Conductor: Richard Armstrong Thomas Hemsley, Elisabeth Soderstrom, Julian Moyle, Arthur Davies, Edward Byles


12 Dec 1979 The Magic Flute W.A. Mozart Conductor: Wyn Davies John Treleaven, Russell Smythe, Monica Pick-Hieronimi, Felicity Lott, David Gwynne


13 Dec 1979 Ernani Giuseppe Verdi Conductor: Richard Armstrong Kenneth Collins, Suzanne Murphy, Richard Van Allan, Cornelis Opthof, Catherine Savory


14 Dec 1979 Madam Butterfly Puccini Conductor: Julian Smith John Treleaven, Magdalana Falewicz, Henry Newman, James Miller-Coburn, Menai Davies


15 Dec 1979 Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner Conductor: Reginald Goodall, Linda Esther Gray, John Mitchinson, Bent Norup, Gwynne Howell, Nicholas Folwell

Welsh National Opera (Cardiff New Theatre

21, 28 Feb 7 Mar 1981

Die Frau ohne Schatten See below for details

Welsh National Opera (Festival) London Dominion Theatre

11, 14 Mar 1981

Die Frau ohne Schatten (Woman without a Shadow) Richard Strauss Conductor: Richard Armstrong Anne Evans, Norman Bailey, Matti Kastu Geoffrey Moses, Patricia Payne

Welsh National Opera Tour Cardiff, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, Llandudno

10 Mar - 19 Jun 1982

I Puritani Bellini Conductor: Julian Smith Suzanne Murphy, John Harris, David Gwynne

Welsh National Opera London Dominion Theatre

5 & 10 Apr 1982

La Forza del Destino Beethoven Conductor: Richard Armstrong David Gwynne, Elizabeth Vaughan, Menai Davies, Moises Parker, Norman Phillips

Welsh National Opera London Dominion Theatre Festival of Opera

6 Apr 1982 The Bartered Bride Smetana Conductor: Mark Ermier Julian Moyle, April Cantelo, Helen Field, Donald Francke, Menai Davies


7 Apr 1982 I Puritani Bellini Conductor: Julian Smith Suzanne Murphy, John Harris, David Gwynne, Henry Newman, Geoffrey Moses


8 Apr 1982 Fidelio Beethoven Conductor: Richard Armstrong Anne Evans, Helen Field, Stafford Dean, Dennis Bailey, Julian Patrick

Welsh National Opera Tour Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham, Llandudno

18 May – 17 Jun 1982

Katya Kabanova Janacek Conductor: Richard Armstrong Arthur Davies, Elizabeth Soderstrom, Rita Gorr, Jeffrey Lawton, Ann Morgan

Welsh National Opera Tour Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham, Llandudno

19 May & 19 Jun 1982

Tosca Puccini Conductor: Mark Ermier, Marilyn Zschau, Elizabeth Vaughan, Ettore Nova, Kenneth Collins


5 Dec 1984 The Greek Passion Bohuslav Martinu Conductor: Anthony Negus John Tranter, Phillip Joll, Richard Morton, Anthony Mee, Jeffrey Lawton, Geraint Roberts


6 Dec 1984 La Boheme Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Guido Ajmone-Marsan Helen Field, Henry Newman, Arthur Davies


7 Dec 1984 From the House of the Dead Leos Janacek Conductor: Richard Armstrong Robert Carpenter Turner, Yolande Jones, John Mitchinson, Paul Strathearn


17 & 20 Dec 1984

Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi

London Dominion Theatre

Conductor: Richard Armstrong Eduard Tunagian, Ann Williams-King, Dennis O’Neill, Cheryl Barker

Welsh National Opera Co. Brochure

18 May 1965 for one week

Fidelio, Macbeth, Moses With Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Conductors: Bryan Balkwill, Eric Wetherell

Welsh National Opera Co. Brochures

1976 Tour Brochures – Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Swansea, Birmingham

Welsh National Opera Brochure Bristol Hippodrome

1982 - 1983 Carmen, Un Ballo in Maschera, Tamburlaine, Fidelio, From the House of the Dead, Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni, Andrea Chenier, The Cunning Little Vixen, Madam Butterfly

Welsh National Opera Festival Festival of Opera Dominion Theatre Brochure

6 - 10 Dec 1983 From the House of the Dead, Carmen, Peter Grimes, The Rhinegold

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