The first performance of this production, under English Opera Group management, was on 7 July 1947 at Glyndebourne, Sussex.
The cast for the first performance of this production was:
Richard Lewis, Male Chorus; Emelie Hooke, Female Chorus; Norman Lumsden, Collatinus; Denis Dowling, Junius; Otakar Kraus, Tarquinius; Kathleen Ferrier, Lucretia; Flora Nielsen, Bianca; Irene Eisinger, Lucia; producer, Eric Crozier; designer, John Piper; The English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra conducted by Reginald Goodall.
In subsequent performances the above cast was interchanged with a second cast, different individuals being exchanged during the run.
The second cast was:
Peter Pears, Male Chorus; Joan Cross, Female Chorus; Edmund Donlevy, Junius; Nancy Evans, Lucretia; Catherine Lawson, Bianca; Elizabeth Parry or Margaret Ritchie or Lesley Duff, Lucia; conductors were Benjamin Britten and Stanford Robinson.
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Programmes (from Amsterdam, Lucerne, Zürich, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bournemouth and Oxford) for this English Opera Group tour are in the archive.
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PHPN-17-3
