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Manon
Opéra comique in five acts by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille,
from the novel by Abbé Prévost; English version by Norman
Feasey
M Jules Massenet (1884)
Production by Frederick Ashton
SC James Bailey
Cast: Manon Lescaut: Virginia McWatters; The Count des Grieux: Jess Walters;
Lescaut: Dennis Noble
FP Covent Garden Opera, Royal Opera House, London, 30 January 1947
Albert
Herring
A Comic Opera in three acts by Eric Crozier, freely adapted from
Le Rosier de Madame Husson by Guy de Maupassant
M Benjamin Britten (opus 39)
Production by Frederick Ashton
SC John Piper
Cast: Lady Billows: Joan Cross; Florence: Gladys Parr; Miss
Wordsworth: Margaret Ritchie; Mr Gedge: William Parsons;
Mr Upfold: Roy Ashton; Superintendent Budd: Norman Lumsden;
Sid: Frederick Sharp; Albert Herring: Peter Pears; Nancy:
Nancy Evans; Mrs Herring: Betsy de la Porte; Emmie: Leslie
Duff; Cis: Anne Sharp; Harry: David Spenser
FP English Opera Group, Glyndebourne Opera House, 20 June 1947
Valses
nobles et sentimentales
M Maurice Ravel (orchestral transcription, 1912)
SC Sophie Fedorovitch
D Anne Heaton, Donald Britton, Michael Boulton, Elaine Fifield, Maryon
Lane, Jane Shore, Yvonne Barnes, Kenneth MacMillan, Michael Hogan, Peter
Darrell
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 1 October
1947
NP Sadler's
Wells Royal Ballet; R Frederick Ashton, Anne Heaton et al (Peter Wright,
uncredited); SC Sophie Fedorovitch, realised by William Chappell:
D Nicholas Millington, Marion Tait, Stephen Wicks, Nicola Katrak, Karen
Donovan, Susan Lucas, Louise Britain, Kevin O'Hare, Iain Webb, Mark Welford
FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 9 January 1987
copyright © 2004 by David Vaughan
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