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Opera in a prologue and two acts Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
(revised Arrigo Boito )
English version by Norman Tucker
Music by Verdi
Cast in order of singing:
Sadler's Wells Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leo Quayle )
Sadler's Wells Orchestra
(Leader, Walter Price )
Conductor, Michael Mudie
From Sadler's Wells Theatre, London (By arrangement with the Governors)
Scene: Genoa in the twelfth century
6.55 Prologue:
A square, with the Doge's Palace
7.30 Interval
7.40 Act 1
Scene 1: The garden of the Grimaldi Palace. Dawn, twenty years later
Scene 2: The Doge's Council Chamber. Next day
8.45 Interval

Contributors

Unknown:
Francesco Maria Piave
Unknown:
Arrigo Boito
Unknown:
Norman Tucker
Chorus-Master:
Leo Quayle
Leader:
Walter Price
Conductor:
Michael Mudie
Paolo, Leader of the PlebeianParty:
Frederick Sharp
Pietro, a Plebeian:
Denis Dowling
Simone Boccanegra, Captain of theGenoese Fleet, later first Plebeian Doge of Genoa:
Arnold Matters
Fiesco, reigning Patrician Doge, later disguised as Andrea:
Stanley Clarkson
Amelia Grimaldi, Boccanegra's daughter, lost as a child:
Joyce Gartside
Gabriele Adorno, a Patrician, in love with Amelia:
Rowland Jones
Captain of the Guard:
Rhys Williams

Jan Smeterlin (piano)
Scherzo in E, Op. 54
Two Nocturnes: G. Op. 37 No. 2;
E flat, Op. 55 No. 2
Four Mazurkas: A minor. Op. 17
No. 4; B minor, Op. 33 No. 4; B, Op. 41 No. 3; G, Op. 50 No. 1
Two Waltzes: F, Op. 34 No. 3; D flat,
Op. 64 No.
Fantasy-Impromptu. Op. 66
Sixteenth of a series of programmes of music by Chopin

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