Thursday 1 June 2023

ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA (formerly SADLERS WELLS OPERA at the Coliseum) Catalogue of Productions 1968 - 1975

 

 

BARTÓK, Béla

 

BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE

(Judith, Bluebeard)

22 March 1972: Ava June, Don Garrard: Charles Mackerras: Glen Byam Shaw, Ralph Koltai

 

BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van

 

FIDELIO

(Leonora, Marcellina, Florestan, Jacquino, Don Pizarro, Rocco, Don Fernando, 1. Prisoner, 2. Prisoner)

27 November 1970: Ava June, Anne Evans, Hugh Beresford, Maurice Arthur, Norman Bailey, Don Garrard, Robert Lloyd, Meston Reid, Maurice Bowen: Charles Mackerras: Basil Coleman, Tony Abbott, John & Ann Bloomfield

 

LEONORA

(Leonora, Marcellina, Florestan, Jacquino, Don Pizarro, Rocco, Don Fernando, 1. Prisoner, 2. Prisoner)

18 March 1970: Pauline Tinsley, Wendy Baldwin, Hugh Beresford, David Hillman, Norman Bailey, Don Garrard, Gwynne Howell, Meston Reid, Maurice Bowen: Charles Mackerras: Basil Coleman, Tony Abbott, John & Ann Bloomfield

 

BERLIOZ, Hector

 

THE DAMNATION OF FAUST

(Faust, Mephistopheles, Marguerite, Brander)

14 August 1969: Alberto Remedios, Raimund Herincx, Margaret Curphey, Gwynne Howell: Charles Mackerras: Michael Geliot, Wilfried Minks and Annena Stubbs

 

BIZET, Georges

 

CARMEN

(Carmen, Don José, Escamillo, Micaela, Frasquita, Mercedes, Dancairo, Remendado, Zuniga, Morales)

6 May 1970: Ann Howard, David Hughes, Geoffrey Chard, Lorna Haywood, Wendy Baldwin, Shirley Chapman, David Bowman, Emile Belcourt, John Kitchiner, Norman Welsby: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, Stefanos Lazaridis

 

CROSSE, Gordon

 

THE STORY OF VASCO

(Marguerite, Vasco, Lieutenant September, Caesar, Rondo, Troppo, Monsieur Corfan, Aide-de-Camp, The Mirador, Major Braun, Lieutenant Latour, Lieutenant Hans, Sergeant Caquot, Sergeant Paraz, Sergeant Alexander, Lieutenant Barbaris, A Widow)

13 March 1974 (WP): Josephine Barstow, John Brecknock, Tom McDonnell, John Fryatt, Brian Burrows, Harry Coghill, Harold Blackburn, Raymond Scally, Neil Howlett, Eric Shilling, Peter Tracey, Ashton Smith, Denis Dowling, Glyn Adams, Gerald Holding, Stuart Kale, Jean Manning: Sir Charles Groves: Michael Elliott & Richard Negri, Richard Negri

 

DONIZETTI, Gaetano

 

MARY STUART

(Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, Hannah Kennedy, Dudley, Talbot, Cecil)

13 December 1973: Pauline Tinsley, Janet Baker, Audrey Gunn, Keith Erwen, Dan Garrard, Christian du Plessis: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, Desmond Heeley

 

HANDEL, Georg Friedrich

 

SEMELE

(Semele, Iris, Ino, Juno, Cupid, Athamas, Jupiter, Apollo, High Priest, Cadmus, Somnus)

21 October 1970: Elizabeth Harwood/Lois McDonall, Elizabeth Tippett, Georgetta Psaros, Gillian Knight, Wendy Eathorne, James Bowman, Alexander Young, Emil Belcourt, Gwynne Howell, Stafford Dean, Harold Blackburn: Charles Mackerras: Filippo Sanjust

 

HENZE, Hans Werner

 

THE BASSARIDS

(Dionysus, Pentheus, Cadmus, Tiresias, Guard Captain, 1. 2. 3. Male Bacchant, Agave, Autonoe, Beroe, Venus, Prosperine, Calliope, Adonis)

10 October 1974: Gregory Dempsey, Norman Welsby, Dennis Wicks, Kenneth Woollam, Tom McDonnell, Malcolm Rivers, Ashton Smith, Harry Coghill, Katherine Pring, Josephine Barstow, Anne Collins, Katherine Pring, Josephine Barstow, Kenneth Woollam, Tom McDonnell

 

JANÁČEK, Leoš

 

KATYA KABANOVA

(Katerina Kabanova, Varvara, Kabanicha, Glasha, Boris Grigorievitch, Tichon Kabanov, Vanya, Dikoy, Feklusha, Kuligin)

12 September 1973: Lorna Haywood, Barbara Walker, Sylvia Fisher, Sheila Rex, Kenneth Woollam, Robert Ferguson, Paul Crook, Dennis Wicks, Audrey Gunn, Christian du Plessis: Charles Mackerras: John Blatchley, Stefanos Lazaridis

 

LÉHAR, Franz

 

THE MERRY WIDOW

(Hanna Glawari, Valencienne, Sylvanie, Praskowia, Count Danilo, Camille de Rousillon, Barpn Mirko Zeta, Bogdanowitsch, Kromow, Vicomte Cascada, Raoul de St. Brioche)

7 December 1972: Lorna Haywood, Ann Hood, Barbara Walker, Sheila Rex, John Wakefield, John Brecknock, Denis Dowling, Ashton Smith, Harry Coghill, Peter Lyon, Terry Jenkins: Henry Krips: John Cox, Elisabeth Dalton

 

LEONCAVALLO, Ruggero

 

PAGLIACCI

(Tonio, Beppe, Nedda, Canio, Silvio, 1. Villager, 2. Villager)

29 September 1971: Derek Hammond Stroud, Robin Donald, Lorna Haywood, Kevin Mills, Norman Welsby, Keith Bonnington, Frank Harvey

 

MASCAGNI, Pietro

 

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA

(Santuzza, Mamma Lucia, Alfio, Turiddu, Lola)

29 September 1971: Rita Hunter, Anne Collins, Malcolm Rivers, Robert Ferguson, Georgetta Psaros: John Barker: John Blatchley, Annena Stubbs

 

MONTEVERDI, Claudio

 

THE CORONATION OF POPPEA

(Poppea, Octavia, Drusilla, Handmaid, Fortune, Virtue, Love, Nero, Arnalta, Otho, Seneca, Page to Octavia, Liberto, Lucano, 1. Soldier, 2. Soldier)

24 November 1971: Janet Baker, Katherine Pring, Barbara Walker, Iris Saunders, Barbara Walker, Shirley Chapman, Elizabeth Gale, Robert Ferguson, Anne Collins, Tom McDonnell, Clifford Grant, John Brecknock, Norman Welsby, Emile Belcourt, Robin Donald, John Delaney

 

MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus

 

DON GIOVANNI

(Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Zerlina, Don Giovanni, Don Ottavio, Leporello, Masetto, Commendatore)

21 August 1968: Donna-Faye Carr, Pauline Tinsley, Margaret Neville, Leonard Delany, Donald Pilley, Stafford Dean, Norman Welsby, Don Garrard: Mario Bernardi: John Gielgud

 

THE MAGIC FLUTE

(Pamina, Queen of Night, Papagena, 1. Lady, 2. Lady, 3. Lady, Tamino, Monostatos, Papageno, Sarastro, Speaker, 1. Priest, 2. Priest, 1. Man in Armour, 2. Man in Armour)

16 January 1975: Barbara Walker, Margaret Haggart, Sandra Dugdale, Anne Conoley, Ann Hood, Anne Collins, John Brecknock, Paul Crook, Alan Opie, Neil Warren-Smith, Geoffrey Chard, Terry Jenkins, Harry Coghill, Tom Swift, William Mason: Charles Mackerras: Anthony Besch, John Stoddart

 

THE SERAGLIO

(Constanze, Blonde, Belmonte, Pedrillo, Osmin, Pasha Selim)

10 March 1971: Lois McDonall, Norma Burrowes, Alexander Young, John Fryatt, Richard Van Allan, Conrad Phillips: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, Stefanos Lazaridis

 

OFFENBACH, Jacques

 

THE TALES OF HOFFMANN

(Antonia/Olympia/Giulietta/Stella. Voice of Olympia, The Spirit of Antonia’s Mother, The Muse/Niklausse, Hoffmann, Lindorf/Coppelius /Dr. Miracle/Dapertutto, Andreas/Cochenille /Franz/Pittichinaccio, Spalanzani, Luther, Crespel, Peter Schlemil, Nathaniel, Hermann, Wilhelm, Two Voices on the Lagoon)

20 August 1970: Anne Evans, Rhonda Bruce, Anne Collins, Katherine Pring, William McAlpine, Geoffrey Chard, Francis Egerton, John Fryatt, David Bowman, Eric Stannard, Norman Welsby, Robin Donald, Peter Garrett, Simon Vaughan, Georgetta Psaros, Anne Collins: Nicholas Braithwaite: Colin Graham, David Collis

 

PENDERECKI, Krzysztof

 

THE DEVILS OF LOUDON

(Jeanne des Anges, Sister Claire, Sister Louise, Sister Gabrielle, Urbain Grandier, Father Barré, Father Rangier, Father Mignon, Father Ambrose, Jean D’Armagnac, Guillaume de Cerisay, Adam, Mannoury, Philippe Trincant, Ninon, Baron de Laubardemont, Prince Henri de Condé, Bontemps, Clerk of the Court, Asmodeus, Leviathan, Beherit)

1 November 1973: Josephine Barstow, Anne Conoley, Shelagh Squires, Maurine London, Geoffrey Chard, Harold Blackburn, George Gordon, Robert Ferguson, Dennis Wicks, Denis Dowling, Stephen Turner, Gregory Dempsey, Eric Shilling, Sandra Dugdale, Della Jones, Paul Crook, Ashton Smith, William Mason, Carl Oatley, Denis Dowling, Dennis Wicks, Maurice Bowen: Nicholas Braithwaite: John Dexter: John Napier

 

PROKOFIEV, Sergey

 

WAR AND PEACE

(Andrei, Natasha, Sonya, Madame Akhrosimova, Rostov, Pierre, Helene, Anatol, Dolokhov, Denisov, Kutuzov, Napoleon, Karataev)

11 October 1972: Tom McDonnell, Josephine Barstow, Kathleen Smales, Anne Collins, Eric Shilling, Kenneth Woollam, Ann Hood, John Brecknock, Malcolm Rivers, Norman Welsby, Norman Bailey, Raymond Myers, Gregory Dempsey

 

PUCCINI, Giacomo

 

MADAM BUTTERFLY

(Madam Butterfly, Suzuki, Kate Pinkerton, Lt. Pinkerton, Sharpless, Yamadori, Bonze)

28 February 1974: Ava June, Sarah Walker, Shelagh Squires, Robert Ferguson, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Ashton Smith, Clifford Grant: David Lloyd-Jones: Colin Graham, John Fraser

 

ROSSINI, Gioacchino

 

THE ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS

(Isabella, Karima, Zulma, Lindoro, Mustapha, Taddeo, Ali)

15 October 1968: Patricia Kern, Wendy Baldwin, Ann Robson, John Winfield, Harold Blackburn, Julian Moyle, David Bowman: Mario Bernardi: Wendy Toye, Peter Whiteman

 

STRAUSS, Richard

 

DER ROSENKAVALIER

(The Feldmarschallin, Octavian, Sophie, Marianne Leitmetzerin, Annina, Baron Ochs, Faninal, Valzacchi, A Tenor, Major-Domo to the Princess, A Landlord, A Commissar of Police)

29 January 1975: Anne Evans, Josephine Barstow, Valerie Masterson, Judith Turner, Sarah Walker, Neil Warren-Smith, Eric Shilling, Paul Crook, Tom Swift, Terry Jenkins, Jon Sydney, Denis Dowling: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, David Walker

 

SULLIVAN, Arthur

 

PATIENCE

(Reginald Bunthorne, Colonel Calverley, Archibald Grosvenor, Major Murgatroyd, Duke of Dunstable, Lady Angela, Lady Saphir, Lady Ella, Lady Jane, Patience)

9 October 1969: Derek Hammond Stroud, Eric Shilling, Emile Belcourt, Alan Charles, John Delaney, Shirley Chapman, Dorothy Nash, Pamela Fasso, Heather Begg, Wendy Baldwin: Kenneth Montgomery: John Cox, John Stoddart

 

VERDI, Giuseppe

 

DON CARLOS

(Elisabeth de Valois, Thibault, Don Carlos, Count of Lerma, A Monk, Rodrigo, Philip II, Princess Eboli, Countess of Aremberg, Royal Herald, 1. 2, 3. 4. 5. 6 Flemish Nobleman, A Heavenly Voice, Grand Inquisitor)

21 August 1974: Margaret Curphey, Anne Conoley, Joseph Gabriels, John Kitchiner, Gwynne Howell, Benjamin Luxon, Clifford Grant, Katherine Pring, Mary Self, Kenneth Woollam, Harry Coghill, Kenneth Francis, Tom McDonnell, Alan Opie, Ashton Smith, Patrick Wheatley, Audrey Gunn, Richard Van Allan: Charles Mackerras: Colin Graham, Christopher Morley, Ann Curtis

 

THE FORCE OF DESTINY

(Leonora di Vargas, Preziosilla, Curra, Don Alvaro, Don Carlo di Vargas, Father Superior, Melitone, Marquis of Calatrava, Trabucco, The Alcalde, A Surgeon)

8 December 1968: Pauline Tinsley, Joyce Blackham, Anna Cooper, Donald Smith, Robert Bickerstaff, Don Garrard, Derek Hammond Stroud, Eric Stannard, John Fryatt, Gerwyn Morgan, Tom McDonnell: Bryan Balkwill: Colin Graham, David Collis

 

LA TRAVIATA

(Violetta Valery, Flora Bervoix, Annina, Alfredo Germont, Gaston, Giorgio Germont, Baron Douphol, Marquis d’Obigny, Doctor Grenville)

14 March 1973: Josephine Barstow, Ann Hood, Shelagh Squires, John Brecknock, Paul Crook, Geoffrey Chard, Thomas Lawlor, Kenneth Francis, Harry Coghill: Nicholas Braithwaite: John Copley, David Walker

 

IL TROVATORE

(Leonora, Inez, Azucena, Manrico, Count of Luna, Ferrando)

23 August 1972: Rita Hunter, Anne Collins, Gabrielle Lavigne, Jon Sydney, Norman Bailey, David Gwynne: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, Stefanos Lazaridis

 

WAGNER, Richard

 

LOHENGRIN

(Elsa, Ortrud, Lohengrin, Telramund, King Henry, Herald, 1. Knight, 2. Knight, 3, Knight, 4. Knight)

12 August 1971: Margaret Curphey, Ann Howard, Alberto Remedios, Raimund Herincx, Clifford Grant, Terence Sharpe, Robin Donald, John Delaney, Tom McDonnell, Robert Lloyd: Charles Mackerras: Colin Graham: Michael Knight

 

THE RHINEGOLD

(Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Alberich, Fricka, Wotan, Freia, Fasolt, Fafner, Froh, Donner, Loge, Mime, Erda)

1 March 1972: Barbara Walker, Elizabeth Tippett, Georgette Psaros, Derek Hammond Stroud, Ann Howard, Norman Bailey, Lois McDonall, Robert Lloyd, Clifford Grant, Robert Ferguson, Norman Welsby, Emile Belcourt, Gregory Dempsey, Anne Collins: Charles Mackerras: Glen Byam Shaw & John Blatchley, Ralph Koltai

 

SIEGFRIED

(Siegfried, Mime, The Wanderer, Alberich, Fafner, Brünnhilde, Woodbird, Erda)

8 February 1973: Alberto Remedios, Gregory Dempsey, Don Garrard, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Clifford Grant, Rita Hunter, Valerie Masterson, Anne Collins: Reginald Goodall: Glen Byam Shaw & John Blatchley, Ralph Koltai

 

THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

(Brünnhilde, Gutrune, Waltraute, Siegfried, Gunther, Hagen, Alberich, 1. Norn, 2. Norn, 3. Norn, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)

29 January 1971: Rita Hunter, Catherine Wilson, Katherine Pring, Alberto Remedios, Norman Bailey, Clifford Grant, Derek Hammond Stroud, Georgetta Psaros, Anne Collins, Janice Chapman, Barbara Walker, Anne Evans, Georgetta Psaros: Reginald Goodall: Glen Byam Shaw & John Blatchley, Ralph Koltai

 

THE VALKYRIE

(Siegmund, Sieglinde, Hunding, Wotan, Brünnhilde, Fricka, Gerhilde, Ortlinde, Waltraute, Schwertleite, Helmwige, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Roßweiße)

29 January 1970: Alberto Remedios/Hugh Beresford, Ava June, Clifford Grant, Norman Bailey, Rita Hunter, Ann Howard, Margaret Curphey, Donna Faye Carr, Patricia Purcell, Katherine Pring, Janice Chapman, Ann Robson, Anna Cooper, Gillian Knight: Reginald Goodall: Glen Byam Shaw & John Blatchley, Ralph Koltai

 

WILLIAMSON, Malcolm

 

LUCKY PETER’S JOURNEY

(Nisse/Robin/1. Friend/1. Saint, Nilla/Spring Bird /2. Friend/2. Saint, Peter, Lisa, Good Fairy, Loki, Staffen, The Steward)

18 December 1969: April Cantelo, Jennifer Vyvyan, Geoffrey Chard, Shirley Chapman, Ailene Fischer, John Delaney, Harold Blackburn, Emile Belcourt: John Barker: John Cox, Dacre Punt

 

 

 

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