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'THE MIDSUMMER MARRIAGE'

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An opera in three acts
Words and music by Michael Tippett
Cost in order of singing:
Non-singing part:
(Continued in next column)
Chorus of Mark's and Jenifer's friends
Dancers attendant on the Ancients
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson ]
Covent Garden Orchestra (Leader, Charles Taylor )
Conducted BY JOHN PRITCHARD
Producer. Christopher West
From the Royal Opera House.
Covent Garden
(by arrangement with the Royal
Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
The action takes place during Midsummer Day
Act 1: Morning

Contributors

Music By:
Michael Tippett
Chorus-Master:
Douglas Robinson
Leader:
Charles Taylor
Conducted By:
John Pritchard
Producer:
Christopher West
MARK, a young man of unknown parentage:
Richard Lewis
THE ANCIENTS, priest and priestess of the temple Langdon:
Michael Lewis
THE ANCIENTS, priest and priestess of the temple Langdon and:
Edith Coates
JENIFER, Mark's betrothed, a young girl:
Joan Sutherland
KING FISHER Jenifer's father, a business man:
Otakar Kraus
BELLA, King Fisher's secretary:
Adele Leigh
JACK, Bella's boy-friend, a mechanic:
John Lanigan
A HALF-TIPSY MAN:
Gordon Farrall
A DANCING MAN:
Andrew Daniels
Sosostris, a clairvoyante:
Oralia Dominguez
Strephon, a dancer:
Pirmin Trecu
Source: Radio Times

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