SADLER’S
WELLS AND ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA AT THE LONDON COLISEUM
CATALOGUE
OF PRODUCTIONS 1968 – 1970
This catalogue
lists each new production at the London Colosseum from 1968, when Sadler’s
Wells Opera moved to the theatre, with details of the casts on the first
performance each season the production was revived.
The
move from the old theatre involved many productions which were transferred, and
these are noted with an (*). Other productions were newly created.
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
LEONORE (original
version of Fidelio)
First Production: 18
March 1969 (directed by Basil Coleman)
1969-1970: Pauline
Tinsley, Hugh Beresford, Norman Bailey, Don Garrard: Charles Mackerras
Hector BERLIOZ
THE DAMNATION OF FAUST
First Production: 13
August 1969 (directed by Michael Geliot)
1969-1970: Margaret
Curphey, Alberto Remedios, Raimund Herincx: Charles Mackerras
Georges BIZET
CARMEN
First Production: 6
May 1970 (directed by John Copley)
1969-1970: Ann
Howard, David Hughes, Lorna Haywood, Geoffrey Chard: Charles Mackerras
Benjamin BRITTEN
GLORIANA
First Production*: 19
February 1969 (directed by Colin Graham)
1968-1969:
Sylvia Fisher, David Hillman, Gerwyn Morgan, Shirley Chapman, Jennifer Vyvyan,
Derek Hammond-Stroud, Gwynne Howell: Mario Bernardi
Engelbert HUMPERDINCK
HÄNSEL UND GRETEL
First Production*: 26
December 1968 (directed by Glen Byam Shaw)
1968-1969: Margaret
Neville, Patricia Kern, Neil Easton, Janice Chapman, Ronald Dowd: Mario Bernardi
Claudio MONTEVERDI
ORFEO
First Performance*: 20
March 1969 (directed by Patrick Libby)
1968-1969: John
Wakefield: Raymond Leppard
1969-1970: Alexander
Young: Hazel Vivienne
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
COSÍ FAN TUTTE
First Production*: 25
March 1970 (directed by Glen Byam Shaw)
1969-1970: Anne
Evans, John Brecknock, Katherine Pring, John Gibbs, Margaret Neville, Noel
Easton: W. James Craig
DON GIOVANNI
First Production: 21
August 1968 (directed by John Gielgud)
1968-1969: Leonard
Delaney, Donna Faye-Carr, Donald Pilley, Pauline Tinsley, Stafford Dean, Margaret
Neville: Mario Bernardi
1969-1970:
Geoffrey Chard, Ava June, Donald Pilley, Elizabeth Harwood, Stafford Dean,
Margaret Neville: Charles
Mackerras
IDOMENEO
First Production*: 9
February 1970 (directed by Glen Byam Shaw)
1969-1970:
Ronald Dowd, Josephine Barstow, Ann Evans, Kay Williams: Charles Mackerras
THE MAGIC FLUTE
First Production*: 23
April 1969 (directed by Frank Hauser)
1968-1969: Alexander
Young, Margaret Curphey, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Rhonda Bruce, Don Garrard:
Charles Mackerras
1969-1970: William
McAlpine, Anne Evans, Julian Moyle, Rhonda Bruce, Don Garrard: George Tintner
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
First Production*: 12
November 1968 (directed by John Blatchley)
1968-1969:
Raimund Herincx, Margaret Curphey, Tom McDonnell, Margaret Neville, Shirley
Chapman: Roderick Brydon
Jacques OFFENBACH
LA BELLE HÉLÈNE
First Production*: 24
September 1968 (directed by Basil Coleman)
1968-1969: Joan
Davis, John Brecknock, Denis Dowling, Derek Hammond-Stroud, John Fryatt:
Terence Kern
BLUEBEARD AND HIS SIX WIVES
First Production*: 11
November 1968 (directed by Gillian Lynne
1969-1970: John
Brecknock, Ann Howard, John Fryatt, Margaret Burton: Roderick Brydon
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD
First Production*: 22
August 1968 (directed by Wendy Toye)
1968-1969: Iris
Kells, Kevin Miller, Emile Belcourt, John Delaney, Eric Shilling: John Barker
LA VIE PARISIENNE
First Production*: 16
April 1969 (directed by Wendy Toye)
1968-1969: John
Fryatt, Heather Begg, Kevin Miller, Emile Belcourt, Margaret Burton, Iris Kells:
George Tintner
Sergei PROKOFIEV
THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES
First Production*: 2
January 1970 (directed by Peter Coe)
1969-1970:
Gregory Dempsey, Don Garrard, Julian Moyle, Kevin Miller, Eric Stannard, Janice
Chapman: David Lloyd-Jones
Giacomo PUCCINI
LA BOHÈME
First Production*: 6
November 1968 (directed by John Blatchley)
1968-1969: Anne
Evans, David Hillman, Elizabeth Fretwell, James Singleton: Bryan Balkwill
1969-1970: Donna
Faye-Carr, Donald Pilley, Catherine Duval, Robert Bickerstaff: Roderick Brydon
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
First Production*: 5
February 1969 (directed by Colin Graham)
1968-1969: Ava
June, David Hughes, Neil Easton, Gillian Knight: Mario Bernardi
1969-1970:
Maria Pellegrini, Donald Pilley, Neil Easton, Katherine Pring: Roderick Brydon
Gioacchino ROSSINI
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
First Production*: 25
March 1969 (directed by Douglas Craig)
1968-1969: Terence
Sharp, Wendy Baldwin, John Winfield, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Eric Stannard: John
Matheson
1969-1970: Julian
Moyle, Georgetta Psaros, Ryland Davies, Eric Shilling, Clifford Grant: Kenneth
Montgomery
COUNT ORY
First Production*: 14
November 1969 (directed by Anthony Besch)
1969-1970: Francis
Egerton, Catherine Wilson, Katherine Pring, Anthony Raffell, Maureen Morelle:
Maurits Sillem
THE ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS
First Production: 15
October 1968 (directed by Wendy Toye)
1968-1969: Patricia
Kern, John Winfield, Julian Moyle, Harold Blackburn: Mario Bernardi
1969-1970:
Gillian Knight, Francis Egerton, Denis Dowling, Harold Blackburn: Bryan
Balkwill
THE THIEVING MAGPIE
First Production: 15
May 1969 (directed by Anthony Besch)
1968-1969: Margaret
Curphey, Harold Blackburn, Louis Browne, Don Garrard: Bryan Balkwill
Camille SAINT-SAËNS
SAMSON ET DALILA
First Production*: 15
November 1968 (directed by Keith Beattie)
1968-1969:
Ronald Dowd, Ann Howard, Robert Bickerstaff, Tom McDonnell: Roderick Brydon
Johann STRAUSS
DIE FLEDERMAUS
First Production*: 8
March 1969 (directed by Glen Byam Shaw)
1968-1969: Catherine
Wilson, Emil Belcourt, Margaret Gale, Rowland Jones, Shirley Chapman: Henry
Krips
1969-1970: Catherine
Wilson, Emil Belcourt, Margaret Gale, Rowland Jones, Heather Begg: John
Matheson
Richard STRAUSS
ARIADNE ON NAXOS
First Production*: 8
August 1969 (directed by Anthony Besch)
1969-1970: Margaret
Kingsley, Jon Weaving, Jenifer Eady, Margreta Elkins: Charles Mackerras
Igor STRAVINSKY
THE RAKE’S PROGRESS
First Production*: 20
November 1969 (directed by Glen Byam Shaw)
1969-1970: Gregory
Dempsey, Margaret Neville, Raimund Herincx, Ann Howard: Charles Mackerras
Arthur SULLIVAN
IOLANTHE
First Production*: 2
April 1969 (directed by Eric Shilling)
1968-1969: Eric
Shilling, Denis Dowling, John Brecknock, Margaret Gale, Alan Charles, Heather
Begg, Gillian Knight: Richard Fisher
PATIENCE
First Production: 9
October 1969 (directed by John Cox)
1969-1970: Wendy
Baldwin, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Emile Belcourt, Heather Begg, Eric Shilling:
Kenneth Montgomery
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY
THE QUEEN OF SPADES
First Production*: 18
February 1969 (directed by Anthony Besch)
1969-1970: Catherine
Wilson, David Hillman, Edith Coates, Norman Welsby, Geoffrey Chard: John Matheson
Giuseppe VERDI
THE FORCE OF DESTINY
First Production: 18
December 1968 (directed by Colin Graham)
1968-1969: Pauline
Tinsley, Donald Smith, Robert Bickerstaff, Don Garrard, Joyce Blackham, Derek
Hammond-Stroud: Bryan Balkwill
1969-1970: Pauline
Tinsley, Donald Pilley, Robert Bickerstaff, Clifford Grant, Joyce Blackham,
Derek Hammond Stroud: Bryan Balkwill
RIGOLETTO
First Production*: 2
September 1968 (directed by Michael Geliot)
1968-1969:
Raimund Herincx, Maria Pellegrini, Donald Smith: Kenneth Montgomery
1969-1970: Raymond
Myers, Margaret Neville, Keith Erwen: Bryan Balkwill
LA TRAVIATA
First Production*: 8
January 1969 (directed by William Royston)
1968-1969: Margaret
Curphey, David Hillman, Julian Moyle: Kenneth Montgomery
1969-1970:
Margaret Curphey, Keith Erwen, Geoffrey Chard: John Matheson
Richard WAGNER
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN*
First Production: 29
January 1969 (directed by Dennis Arundell)
1968-1969: Norman
Bailey, Milla Andrew, Gregory Dempsey, Harold Blackburn: John Matheson
1969-1970: Raimund
Herincx, Judith Turner, Hugh Beresford, Don Garrard: Bryan Balkwill
THE MASTERSINGERS OF NUREMBURG
First Production*: 24
August 1968 (directed by Glen Byam Shaw)
1968-1969: Norman
Bailey, Margaret Curphey, Alberto Remedios, Gregory Dempsey, Derek
Hammond-Stroud: Reginald Goodall
1969-1970:
Norman Bailey, Margaret Curphey, Alberto Remedios, Gregory Dempsey, Derek
Hammond-Stroud: Reginald Goodall
THE VALKYRIE
First Production: 29
January 1970 (directed by Glen Byam Shaw and John Blatchley)
1969-1970: Rita
Hunter, Alberto Remedios, Ava June, Norman Bailey, Ann Howard, Clifford Grant:
Reginald Goodall
Malcolm WILLIAMSON
LUCKY PETER
World Premiere: 18
December 1968 (directed by John Cox)
1969-1970: Geoffrey
Chard, Jennifer Vyvyan, April Cantelo: John Barker
THE VIOLINS OF SAINT-JACQUES
First Production*: 27
November 1968 (directed by John Blatchley)
1968-1969:
April Cantelo, David Hillman, Jennifer Vyvyan, Emile Belcourt, Shirley Chapman,
Raimund Herincx: John Barker
1969-1970: April
Cantelo, David Hillman, Jennifer Vyvyan, Emile Belcourt, Shirley Chapman,
Raimund Herincx: John Barker
