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Sadler's Wells Trust, Ltd. presents the Sadler's Wells Opera Company in 'CARMEN'

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An opera in four acts
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy
Music by Georges Bizet
English version by Hermann Klein
Cast in order of singing:
Cigarette-girls poldiiers, street boys, men and women of Seville
Sadler's Wells Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Marcus Dods )
Sadler's Wells Orchestra
(Leader, Walter Price )
CONDUCTOR, CHARLES MACKERRAS
From
Sadler's Wells Theatre. London before an invited audience
The action takes place in and around Seville in 1820 Act 1
A square in ScviHe
Act 2
Lillas Pastia's tavern
Acts 3 and 4 at 9.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Meilhac
Unknown:
Ludovic Halevy
Music By:
Georges Bizet
Unknown:
Hermann Klein
Chorus-Master:
Marcus Dods
Leader:
Walter Price
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Morales, a sergeant:
Peter Glossop
Micaela, a peasant girl:
Patricia Howard
Zuniga, lieutenant of the Dragoons:
Harold Blackburn
Don Jose, a corporal:
Robert Thomas
Gypsy girls:Carmen:
Anna Pollak
Mercedes:
Sheila Rex
Frasquita:
Helen Hilldex
Escamillo, a bull-fighter:
John Hargreaves
Smuggiers: Dancairo:
Denis Dowldng
Smuggiers: Remendado:
Ereach Riley
Source: Radio Times

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