22 Aug-6 Sep 1961
Programme book for the Edinburgh Festival including The Covent Garden Opera performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Works performed:
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem; Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings; Purcell Variations and Fugue; Piano Concerto and Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes. Purcell: Morning Hymn, Alleluia; Schum
Date:
Aug-Sep 1961
Venue:
Various, Edinburgh
Performers:
Oberon, Russell Oberlin; Tytania, Joan Carlyle; Lysander, Jihn Dobson; Demetrius, Peter Glossop; Helena, Irene Salemka; Hermia, Janet Coster; Hippolyta, Margreta Elkins; Theseus, Forbes Robinson; Quince, Michael Langdon; Bottom, Geraint Evans; Snout, Kenneth MacDonald; Snug, David Kelly; Starveling, Joseph Ward; Flute, John Lanigan; Puck, Nicolas Chagrin; The Covent Garden Opera Chorus and Orchestra; Georg Solti, Meredith Davies, conductors; London Symphony Orchestra; Colin Davis, conductor; Scottish National Orchestra; Alexander Gibson, conductor; Maureen Jones, piano; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Rudolf Kempe, conductor; Peter Pears, tenor; Alan Civil, horn; Philharmonia Orchestra; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor; Philharmonia Orchestra; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor; Peter Pears, tenor, Benjamin Britten, piano, John Gielgud, producer, John Piper, designer
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-1961-0822
