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Tosca-28 November 1953 Evening 7.00pm

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor John Pritchard
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Cesare Angelotti
an escaped political prisoner 		Ronald Firmager
A Sacristan Howell Glynne
Mario Cavaradossi
a famous painter and republican 		Walter Midgley
Floria Tosca
a famous singer 		Joan Hammond
Baron Scarpia
Chief of Police 		Otakar Kraus
Spoletta
a Police Agent 		David Tree
Sciarrone
a Gendarme 		Ronald Lewis
A Shepherd Boy Barbara Howitt
A Gaoler Rhydderch Davies
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Children from Chartesey Secondary School
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: Italian
Durations: Act I: 7.04-7.48pm, Act II: 8.10-8.54pm, Act III: 9.14-9.42pm
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 28 November 1953 (in Royal Opera House Collections)