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Covent Garden Opera Syndicate presents the Covent Garden Opera Company in ' THE OLYMPIANS '

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Opera in three acts
Libretto by J. B. Priestley
Music by Arthur Bliss
Cast in order of singing: Guests, servants, dancers
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson )
Covent Garden Orchestra
(Leader, Joseph Shadwick )
Conducted by Peter Gellhorn
Producer, Peter Brook
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The action takes place In or near Berrasson. a small town in the South of France. Midsummer 1836
Act 1
A ground-floor room in the ' Golden Duck.' Morning of Midsummer Day

Contributors

Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Music By:
Arthur Bliss
Chorus-Master:
Douglas Robinson
Leader:
Joseph Shadwick
Conducted By:
Peter Gellhorn
Producer:
Peter Brook
Madame Bardeau, landlady of the'Golden Duck:
Edith Coates
The Curé, an elderly rural priest:
Murray Dickie
Jean, a porter at the ' Golden Duck:
Ronald Lewis
Joseph Lavatte, a rich bourgeois:
Howell Glynne
Hector de Florae, a young poet:
James Johnston
Madeleine, Joseph Lavatte's daughter:
Shirley Russell
The Olympians, a troupe of strolling Diana:
Margherita Grandi
Bacchus:
Thorsteinn Hannesson
Mars:
David Franklin
Jupiter, manager of the troupe:
Kenneth Schon
Alfred, a night-watchman in Lavatte's house:
Rhydderch Davies
Source: Radio Times

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