1947
CARMEN (Bizet): Edith
Coates, Muriel Rae/Blanche Turner, Kenneth Neate, Dennis Noble/Jess Walters/Bruce
Dargavel; c. Karl Rankl/Reginald Goodall; 14 January 1947 (19 performances)
MANON (Massenet)
(13): Virginia McWatters, Heddle Nash/Edgar Evans, Dennis Noble/George Hancock;
c. Reginald Goodall; 30 January 1947 (13 performances)
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
(Mozart): Victoria Sladen/Blanche Turner/Vera Terry, Audrey Bowman/ Virginia
McWatters, Olive Dyer/Joyce Edmanson, Kenneth Neate, Grahame Clifford/Jess
Walters, Oscar Natzka/David Franklin; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 20 March
1947 (17 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER
(Richard Strauss): Doris Dorée, Victoria Sladen, Virginia McWatters/Leni Lynn, David
Franklin; c. Karl Rankl; 22 April 1947 (11 performances)
TURANDOT (Puccini) (8): Eva
Turner, Vera Terry, Walter Midgley, Oscar Natzka/Bruce Dargavel; c. Constant
Lambert; 29 May 1947 (8 performances)
IL TROVATORE (Verdi): Doris
Dorée/Audrey Bowman, Edith Coates, Arthur Carron, Jess Walters; c. Reginald
Goodall; 23 June 1947 (4 performances)
1947
– 1948
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Elda
Ribetti/Leni Lynn/Audrey Bowman, Edith Coates/Denise Francis-Sirou/Rosina
Raisbeck, Kenneth Neate, Paolo Silveri/Tom Williams, David Franklin; c. Karl
Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 31 October 1947 (10 performances)
Der Rosenkavalier: Doris
Dorée/Elizabeth Abercrombie, Victoria Sladen/Muriel Rae, Leni Lynn/Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Blanche Turner, David Franklin; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 1
November 1947 (6 performances)
Turandot: Eva Turner, Muriel
Rae/Muriel Burnett, Walter Midgley, Marian Nowakowski; c. Reginald Goodall; 4
November 1947 (5 performances)
Il trovatore: Doris Dorée/Audrey
Bowman, Edith Coates/Constance Shacklock, Arthur Carron/Walter Midgley, Paolo
Silveri; c. Reginald Goodall; 5 November 1947 (6 performances)
PETER GRIMES (Britten): Joan
Cross/Doris Dorée, Edith Coates, Constance Shacklock, Peter Pears/Richard
Lewis, Hubert Norville, Tom Williams; c. Karl Rankl/Reginald Goodall; 6
November 1947 (15 performances)
Carmen: Muriel Rae/Blanche
Turner/Victoria Sladen, Edith Coates/Constance Shacklock, Kenneth Neate/Frank
Sale, Paolo Silveri/Tom Williams/George Hancock; c. Karl Rankl/Reginald Goodall;
20 November 1947 (8 performances)
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG (Wagner):
Victoria Sladen/Blanche Turner, Frank Sale, Heddle Nash/Hubert Norville, Hans
Hotter/Tom Williams, Grahame Clifford; c. Karl Rankl/Reginald Goodall; 21
January 1948 (8 performances)
Die Zauberflöte: Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Victoria Sladen/Blanche Turner, Audrey Bowman, Kenneth Neate, Arnold
Matters/Grahame Clifford, David Franklin/Marian Nowakowski; c. Karl Rankl/Peter
Gellhorn; 3 February 1948 (8 performances)
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
(Wagner): Kirsten Flagstad, Constance Shacklock, August Seider, Hans Hotter/Tom
Williams, Walker/David Franklin; c. Karl Rankl/Reginald Goodall; 19 February
1948 (10 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Kirsten
Flagstad, Doris Dorée, Edith Coates, Arthur Carron, Hans Hotter, David Franklin;
c. Karl Rankl; 3 March 1948 (6 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Blanche Turner, Kenneth Neate, Paolo Silveri; c. Reginald Goodall; 6
April 1948 (10 performances)
BORIS GODUNOV
(Mussorgsky) (5): Constance Shacklock, Edgar Evans, Hubert Norville, Paolo
Silveri/Marian Nowakowski, David Franklin, Howell Glynne; c. Karl Rankl/Peter
Gellhorn; 12 May 1948 (5 performances)
1948
– 1949
AIDA (Verdi): Ljuba
Welitsch/Doris Dorée/Willa Stewart/Joan Hammond, Edith Coates/Constance
Shacklock, Torsten Ralf/Franco Beval/Thorsteinn Hannesson, Paolo Silveri/Jess
Walters/Marko Rothmüller; c. Karl Rankl/Reginald Goodall/Warwick Braithwaite; 29
September 1948 (18 performances)
Die Zauberflöte: Shirley
Russell/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Audrey Bowman, Kenneth Neate/Murray Dickie/Rudolf
Schock, Arnold Matters/Jess Walters, Marian Nowakowski; c. Peter Gellhorn/Karl
Rankl; 30 September 1948 (7 performances)
Der Rosenkavalier: Doris
Dorée/Elizabeth Abercrombie, Constance Shacklock, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Shirley
Russell, David Franklin; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 1 October 1948 (4
performances)
La traviata: Blanche Turner/Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Audrey Bowman, Kenneth Neate/Rudolf Schock, Paolo Silveri/Jess
Walters/Tom Williams; c. Karl Rankl/Reginald Goodall; 4 October 1948 (14
performances)
Peter Grimes: Doris Dorée/Cross/Elizabeth
Abercrombie, Edith Coates, Valetta Iacopi, Richard Lewis/Peter Pears, Hubert
Norville, Tom Williams; c. Karl Rankl/Reginald Goodall/Peter Gellhorn; 5
October 1948 (5 performances)
Il trovatore: Joan Hammond/Doris
Dorée, Edith Coates/Constance Shacklock, Libero di Luca/Arthur Carron, Paolo
Silveri/Jess Walters; c. Reginald Goodall; 6 October 1948 (6 performances)
Boris Godunov: Constance
Shacklock, Edgar Evans/Richard Lewis, Hubert Norville, Paolo Silveri, David
Franklin, Howell Glynne; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 8 October 1948 (3
performances)
Carmen: Else Brems/Edith
Coates/Eugenia Zareska/Constance Shacklock, Blanche Turner/Muriel Rae, Frans
Vroons/Kenneth Neate, Paolo Silveri/Tom Williams/Jess Walters/Marko Rothmüller;
c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn/Warwick Braithwaite; 9 October 1948 (11
performances)
Rigoletto: Solange Delmas/Audrey
Bowman/Erma Berger/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Edith Coates, Kenneth Neate/Eugene
Conley, Tom Williams/Paolo Silveri/Marko Rothmüller, Marian Nowakowski/David
Franklin; c. Peter Gellhorn; 14 October 1948 (8 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Joan Hammond/Shirley Russell, Ljuba Welitsch/Audrey Bowman/Blanche
Turner/Muriel Rae, Rudolf Schock/Kenneth Neate/Eugene Conley, Paolo Silveri/Jess
Walters, Geraint Evans, David Franklin/Marian Nowakowski; c. Karl Rankl/Peter
Gellhorn/Warwick Braithwaite; 15 October 1948 (14 performances)
SIEGFRIED (Wagner): Astrid
Varnay/Kirsten Flagstad, Set Svanholm, Peter Klein/Peter Markwort, Hans Hotter/Kenneth
Schon, Grahame Clifford; c. Karl Rankl; 11 November 1948 (5 performances)
Die Walküre: Astrid Varnay/Kirsten
Flagstad, Doris Dorée, Edith Coates, Set Svanholm, Hans Hotter/Kenneth Schon, David
Franklin/Trevor Anthony; c. Karl Rankl; 13 November 1948 (4 performances)
Tristan und Isolde: Astrid
Varnay/Kirsten Flagstad, Constance Shacklock, Set Svanholm, Hans Hotter/Paul
Schöffler, Norman Walker; c. Karl Rankl; 15 November 1948 (4 performances)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Irmgard Seefried, Set Svanholm/Franz Lechleitner/Thorsteinn
Hannesson, Murray Dickie/Hubert Norville, Tom Williams, Grahame Clifford; c. Karl
Rankl/Warwick Braithwaite; 23 November 1948 (3 performances)
FIDELIO (Beethoven): Sylvia
Fisher/Joan Hammond, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Shirley Russell, Thorsteinn
Hannesson, Stephenson, Tom Williams, David Franklin/Rhydderch Davies; c. Karl
Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 9 December 1948 (8 performances)
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
(Mozart): Sylvia Fisher/Doris Dorée/Elizabeth Abercrombie, Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Irmgard Seefried/Shirley Russell, Eugenia Zareska/Adèle Leigh, Hans
Braun/Jess Walters, Geraint Evans; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 22 January
1949 (9 performances)
DAS RHEINGOLD
(Wagner): Edith Coates, Set Svanholm, Peter Klein/Peter Markwort, Hans Hotter, Grahame
Clifford; c. Karl Rankl; 12 May 1949 (2 performances)
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
(Wagner): Kirsten Flagstad, Doris Dorée, Set Svanholm, Hans Hotter, Deszö
Ernster; c. Karl Rankl; 25 May 1949
1949
– 1950
THE OLYMPIANS
(Bliss): Margherita Grandi/Audrey Bowman, Shirley Russell/Adèle Leigh, Edith
Coates, James Johnston/Rudolf Schock, Thorsteinn Hannesson, Murray Dickie/Parry
Jones, Kenneth Schon/Jess Walters, Ronald Lewis; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 29
September 1949 (10 performances)
La traviata: Stella Andreva/Audrey
Bowman/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kenneth Neate/Rudolf Schock, Jess Walters/John
Cameron; c. Reginald Goodall; 30 September 1949 (8 performances)
La bohème: Stella Andreva/Shirley
Russell/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Victoria de los Angeles, Ljuba Welitsch/Audrey
Bowman, Rudolf Schock/Kenneth Neate, Jess Walters, Geraint Evans, David
Franklin/Marian Nowakowski; c. Warwick Braithwaite; 3 October 1949 (9
performances)
Le nozze di Figaro: Sylvia
Fisher/Elizabeth Abercrombie, Shirley Russell/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Emmy Loose,
Adèle Leigh, John Brownlee/Jess Walters, Geraint Evans; c. Karl Rankl/Peter
Gellhorn; 4 October 1949 (8 performances)
Aida: Ljuba Welitsch/Doris
Dorée, Edith Coates/Constance Shacklock, Franz Lechleitner/Thorsteinn Hannesson,
Jess Walters/Kenneth Schon; c. Warwick Braithwaite; 5 October 1949 (8
performances)
Die Zauberflöte: Shirley
Russell/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Blanche Turner, Erma Berger/Maria Stader/Audrey
Bowman/Muriel Burnett, Kenneth Neate/Murray Dickie/Rudolf Schock, John Brownlee/Jess
Walters, Marian Nowakowski/Norman Walker; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 6
October 1949 (8 performances)
Rigoletto: Erma Berger/Audrey
Bowman, Edith Coates/Monica Sinclair, Kenneth Neate/Murray Dickie, Tom Williams/Jess
Walters, David Franklin; c. Peter Gellhorn; 8 October 1949 (6 performances)
Fidelio: Sylvia Fisher,
Shirley Russell/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Thorsteinn Hannesson, Dennis Stephenson,
Tom Williams, David Franklin; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 11 October 1949 (3
performances)
Peter Grimes: Doris Dorée/Cross/Elizabeth
Abercrombie, Edith Coates, Valetta Iacopi/Monica Sinclair, Richard Lewis/Peter
Pears, Murray Dickie/Parry Jones, Tom Williams; c. Reginald Goodall; 14 October
1949 (6 performances)
Il trovatore: Margherita
Grandi, Edith Coates/Constance Shacklock, Libero di Luca/Arthur Carron, Jess
Walters; c. Peter Gellhorn; 20 October 1949 (5 performances)
Der Rosenkavalier: Sylvia
Fisher/Doris Dorée, Constance Shacklock, Erma Berger/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Emmy
Loose, Howell Glynne; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 28 October 1949 (6
performances)
Carmen: Martha Mödl/Eugenia
Zareska/Constance Shacklock/Edith Coates, Blanche Turner/Patricia Howard, Frans
Vroons/Kenneth Neate/Edgar Evans/James Johnston, Geraint Evans/Jess Walters; c.
Warwick Braithwaite/Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 29 October 1949 (9 performances)
Salome: Ljuba Welitsch,
Constance Shacklock, Franz Lechleitner, Kenneth Schon; c. Karl Rankl/Peter
Gellhorn; 11 November 1949 (6 performances)
Boris Godunov: Constance
Shacklock, Edgar Evans, Parry Jones/Thorsteinn Hannesson, Boris Christoff, David
Franklin, Howell Glynne; c. Warwick Braithwaite; 19 November 1949 (4
performances)
Lohengrin: Sylvia Fisher,
Edith Coates/Rosina Raisbeck/Muriel Brunskill, Franz Lechleitner/Arthur Carron/Thorsteinn
Hannesson/Karl Friedrich, Tom Williams, Norman Walker/Marian Nowakowski/Ronald
Stear; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 15 December 1949 (9 performances)
Madama Butterfly: Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Victoria Sladen/Blanche Turner/Doris Dorée, Kenneth Neate/Rudolf
Schock/James Johnston, Tom Williams/Jess Walters; c. Warwick Braithwaite; 17
January 1950 (9 performances)
Manon: Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf, Walter Midgley, Geraint Evans; c. Warwick Braithwaite; 18 May 1950
Das Rheingold: Edith
Coates/Constance Shacklock, Set Svanholm, Erich Zimmermann/Peter Klein, Andreas
Boehm, Grahame Clifford, Ludwig Weber; c. Karl Rankl; 8 June 1950 (2
performances)
Siegfried: Kirsten
Flagstad, Set Svanholm, Erich Zimmermann/Peter Klein, Andreas Boehm, Grahame
Clifford; c. Karl Rankl; 14 June 1950 (2 performances)
Götterdämmerung: Kirsten
Flagstad, Doris Dorée, Set Svanholm, Paul Schöffler, Ludwig Weber; c. Karl
Rankl; 17 June 1950 (2 performances)
Tristan und Isolde: Kirsten
Flagstad, Constance Shacklock, Set Svanholm, Paul Schöffler, Norman Walker; c. Karl
Rankl; 29 June 1950 (2 performances)
Die Walküre: Kirsten
Flagstad, Sylvia Fisher, Edith Coates/Constance Shacklock, Set Svanholm, Andreas
Boehm, Ludwig Weber; c. Karl Rankl; 10 June 1950 (2 performances)
1950
– 1951
Der fliegende Holländer: Sylvia
Fisher/Rosina Raisbeck, Thorsteinn Hannesson/Edgar Evans, Josef Metternich, Norman
Walker/Marian Nowakowski; c. Karl Rankl; 19 October 1950 (8 performances)
La traviata: Clara Ebers/Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Audrey Bowman/Hjördis Schymberg, James Johnston/Walter Midgley/Richard
Lewis, Jess Walters/John Cameron; c. Peter Gellhorn; 20 October 1950 (10
performances)
BORIS GODUNOV: Constance
Shacklock, Edgar Evans/Thorsteinn Hannesson, Ludwig Weber/Marian Nowakowski/Boris
Christoff, Norman Walker/Kenneth Stevenson, Howell Glynne/Michael Langdon; c. Warwick
Braithwaite; 21 October 1950 (8 performances)
La bohème: Blanche Turner/Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Victoria de los Angeles/Joan Hammond, Audrey Bowman/Blanche Turner/Ljuba
Welitsch, Walter Midgley, Jess Walters/Arnold Matters, Geraint Evans, Marian
Nowakowski/Norman Walker; c. Peter Gellhorn; 26 October 1950 (12 performances)
Aida: Joan Hammond/Zadek/Astrid
Varnay, Edith Coates, Franz Lechleitner/Hopf, Marko Rothmüller/Jess Walters; c.
Warwick Braithwaite/Karl Rankl; 27 October 1950 (10 performances)
Manon: Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Victoria de los Angeles, Walter Midgley/Edgar Evans, Geraint Evans;
c. Warwick Braithwaite; 28 October 1950 (5 performances)
Il trovatore: Joan Hammond/Doris
Dorée/Audrey Bowman/Astrid Varnay, Edith Coates/Monica Sinclair, Walter Midgley/James
Johnston, Marko Rothmüller/Jess Walters; c. Peter Gellhorn; 31 October 1950 (9
performances)
Madama Butterfly: Joan
Hammond/Blanche Turner/Victoria de los Angeles, James Johnston/Walter Midgley, Tom
Williams/Jess Walters; c. Warwick Braithwaite; 3 November 1950 (11
performances)
Lohengrin: Sylvia Fisher/Victoria
de los Angeles, Rosina Raisbeck, Franz Lechleitner/Thorsteinn Hannesson, Tom
Williams, Norman Walker/Marian Nowakowski; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 8
November 1950 (6 performances)
Le nozze di Figaro: Sylvia
Fisher, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Emmy Loose, Adèle Leigh, Jess Walters, Geraint
Evans; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 11 November 1950 (6 performances)
Die Zauberflöte: Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Uta Graf, Wilma Lipp/Muriel Burnett/Rayen Quitral, Richard Lewis/Peter
Pears/Dennis Stephenson, Jess Walters, Marian Nowakowski/Norman Walker; c. Karl
Rankl/Peter Gellhorn/Erich Kleiber; 1 November 1950 (8 performances)
Carmen: Martha Mödl/Constance
Shacklock, Patricia Howard/Uta Graf/Blanche Turner, James Johnston/Edgar Evans,
Geraint Evans; c. Karl Rankl/Warwick Braithwaite/Erich Kleiber; 2 November 1950
(8 performances)
Der Rosenkavalier: Sylvia
Fisher, Constance Shacklock, Erma Berger/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Uta Graf, Howell
Glynne; c. Karl Rankl/Erich Kleiber/Peter Gellhorn; 4 November 1950 (8
performances)
Rigoletto: Wilma Lipp/Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf/Erma Berger/Audrey Bowman, Hjördis Schymberg, Edith Coates, Walter
Midgley/James Johnston/Anthony Marlowe, Marko Rothmüller/Jess Walters/Tom
Williams, Marian Nowakowski/Michael Langdon; c. Peter Gellhorn/Erich Kleiber/Emanuel
Young; 6 November 1950 (9 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Hilde
Zadek/Sara Menkes/Ljuba Welitsch, Walter Midgley/James Johnston/Anthony Marlowe,
Marko Rothmüller/Otakar Kraus; c. Warwick Braithwaite/Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn;
18 November 1950 (12 performances)
Fidelio: Sylvia Fisher/Christel
Goltz/Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Uta Graf/Adèle Leigh, Thorsteinn
Hannesson/Peter Anders/Julius Patzak, Dennis Stephenson, Tom Williams, Rhydderch
Davies/Howell Glynne; c. Karl Rankl/Peter Gellhorn; 21 November 1950 (5
performances)
PIKOVAYA DAMA
(Tchaikovsky): Hilde Zadek, Edith Coates, Edgar Evans, Jess Walters, Marko
Rothmüller; c. Erich Kleiber; 21 December 1950 (6 performances)
SALOME (Richard
Strauss): Christel Goltz/Astrid Varnay, Constance Shacklock/Edith Coates, Arthur
Carron, Marko Rothmüller; c. Karl Rankl; 25 January 1951 (4 performances)
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
(Vaughan Williams): iris Kells, Audrey Bowman, Barbara Howitt, Arnold Matters, Inia
Te Wiata/Bryan Drake, Norman Walker/Kenneth Stevenson; c. Leonard Hancock; 26
April 1951 (7 performances)
Das Rheingold: Blanche
Turner, Set Svanholm, Peter Klein, Hans Hotter, Otakar Kraus; c. Karl Rankl; 4
May 1951 (2 performances)
Die Walküre: Anny Konetzni/Astrid
Varnay, Sylvia Fisher/Kirsten Flagstad, Edith Coates, Set Svanholm, Hans Hotter/Sigurd
Björling, Gottlob Frick; c. Karl Rankl; 10 May 1951 (3 performances)
Siegfried: Astrid Varnay,
Set Svanholm, Peter Klein, Hans Hotter, Kraus; c. Karl Rankl; 18 May 1951
Götterdämmerung: Kirsten
Flagstad, Sylvia Fisher, Set Svanholm, Marko Rothmüller, Gottlob Frick; c. Karl
Rankl; 24 May 1951 (2 performances)
Tristan und Isolde: Kirsten
Flagstad, Constance Shacklock, Set Svanholm, Sigurd Björling, Norman Walker; c.
Clemens Krauss/Karl Rankl; 29 May 1951 (5 performances)
PARSIFAL (Wagner): Kirsten
Flagstad, Franz Lechleitner, Sigurd Björling, Otakar Kraus, Ludwig Weber; c. Karl
Rankl; 16 June 1951 (4 performances)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg:
Elisabeth Grümmer, Peter Anders, Murray Dickie, Karl Kamann/Hans Hotter, Benno Kusche;
c. Thomas Beecham; 29 June 1951 (4 performances)
