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ROYAL OPERA HOUSE,
COVENT GARDEN: 1940s
1940 International Opera Season
(cancelled)
1940: INTERNATIONAL OPERA SEASON 1940 (ROH, CvtGdn)
Flyer
Flyer with details of the proposed (and subsequently cancelled) 1940
season, commencing April 29th, and under the direction of Sir Thomas
Beecham, Bart.; subscription rates, application form, repertoire list
("at least 15 operas"), fascinating Covent Garden seating plan [6pp;
5.75x8.9; most unusual] £6
1946 (20 Feb): Covent Garden re-opened by the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company with THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
1946 San Carlo Opera, Naples visit (September
to November)
No programmes available
1946-47 Covent Garden Opera Company Season (12 December to 5 July)
1946 (12 Dec): Covent Garden Opera & Sadler's Wells Ballet Companies unite for THE FAIRY QUEEN (Purcell)
1947 (14 Jan): Covent Garden Opera Company gives first complete post-war opera performance - CARMEN (Bizet)
1947 (25 Jan): THE FAIRY QUEEN in English (ROH, CvtGdn)
Margaret Rawlings, Robert Helpmann, Edgar Evans, Olive Dyer, Audrey Bowman, Constance Shacklock, Gladys Palmer, Harcourt Williams, Michael Hordern, Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Leslie Edwards, etc.; c:C.Lambert [4.9x7.5 white; with punch-holes and a few marks - but unusual] £4
1947 Vienna State Opera visit (16 September to 4 October)
No programmes available
1947 English Opera Group (8 to 18 October)
No programmes available
1947-48 Covent Garden Opera Company (31
October to 5 June)
1947 (13 Nov): PETER GRIMES (ROH, CvtGdn)
Peter Pears, Joan Cross, Williams; c:Goodall [4.9x7.5 white] £3
1948 (20 Apr): LA TRAVIATA in English (ROH, CvtGdn)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kenneth Neate, Paolo Silveri; c:Reginald Goodall, p:Tyrone Guthrie [4.9x7.5, 8pp, white; slightly faded and rumpled, but uncommon] £4
1948-49 Covent Garden Opera Company (29
September to 4 March, and 26 April to 11 June)
No programmes available
1949-50 Covent Garden Opera Company (29
September to 3 March, 3 May to 1 July)
1950 (18 Jan): LOHENGRIN in English (ROH, CvtGdn)
Lechleitner, Sylvia Fisher, T.Williams, Edith Coates, Norman Walker; c:Karl Rankl [4.9x7.5 white] £2
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