Covent Garden Opera

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  • Richard Wagner

  • Sir Adrian Boult
  • Karl Rankl
  • Kirsten Flagstad

  Flagstad’s Wagner in London

  
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  • Vincenzo Bellini

  • Vittorio Gui
  • Maria Callas
  • Ebe Stignani

  Callas in London: ‘Norma’ 1952

  
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  • Richard Strauss

  • Erich Kleiber
  • Covent Garden Opera

  Erich Kleiber conducts ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ Act 1

  
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  • Alban Berg

  • Erich Kleiber
  • Jess Walters

  Erich Kleiber ‘Wozzeck’, London 1953

  
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  • Benjamin Britten

  • Sir John Pritchard
  • Joan Cross
  • Peter Pears
  • Covent Garden Opera

  First performance of ‘Gloriana’

  
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  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  • Igor Markevitch
  • Covent Garden Opera

  Markevitch conducts `The Golden Cockerel`

  
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  • Sir William Walton

  • Sir Malcolm Sargent
  • Magda Laszlo
  • Richard Lewis
  • Covent Garden Opera

  Walton’s ‘Troilus and Cressida’ at Covent Garden

  
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  • Giuseppe Verdi

  • Rafael Kubelík
  • Gré Brouwenstijn
  • Otakar Kraus
  • Ramón Vinay

  ‘Otello’, London 1955

  
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  • Giacomo Puccini

  • Rudolf Kempe
  • Victoria de los Ángeles

  Victoria de los Ángeles, ‘Madama Butterfly’ Covent Garden 1957

  
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  • Hector Berlioz

  • Rafael Kubelík

  • Amy Shuard
  • Blanche Thebom
  • Jon Vickers

  ‘The Trojans’, Covent Garden 1957

  
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  • Giuseppe Verdi

  • Carlo Maria Giulini
  • Fedora Barbieri
  • Gré Brouwenstijn
  • Boris Christoff
  • Tito Gobbi
  • Jon Vickers

  ‘Don Carlos’, Covent Garden 1958

  
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  • Giuseppe Verdi

  • Nicola Rescigno
  • Maria Callas

  Callas in London: ‘La Traviata’ Act 2, Scene 1

  

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