Opera in Philadelphia · Performance Chronology ... - Frank Hamilton

6/07/48: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Samuel M. Chartock Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta Company),
hour: 2030: set design Ralph Alswang; costumes Peggy Morrison
The Mikado of Japan Gean Greenwell
Nanki-Poo Morton Bowe
Ko-Ko Ralph Riggs
Poo-Bah Robert Eckles
Yum-Yum Kathleen Roche
Katisha Helen Whitfield
roles unknown: Lewis Pierce
Helen Wagner
maestro direttore Lehman Engel
6/08/48: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (S. M. Chartock Gilbert and Sullivan Co.), hour: 2030
6/09/48: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (S. M. Chartock Gilbert and Sullivan Co.), hour: 1500
6/09/48: The Mikado: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (S. M. Chartock Gilbert and Sullivan Co.), hour: 2030
6/10/48: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (S. M. Chartock Gilbert and Sullivan Co.), hour: 2030
Richard, a pirate chief Gean Greenwell
Samuel, his lieutenant unknown
Fr ederic, a pirate apprentice Morton Bowe
Major-General Stanley Ralph Riggs
Edward, a sergent of police Robert Eckles
Mabel Kathleen Roche
Ruth Helen Whitfield
maestro direttore Lehman Engel
6/11/48: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (S. M. Chartock Gilbert and Sullivan Co.), hour: 2030
6/12/48: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (S. M. Chartock Gilbert and Sullivan Co.), hour: 1430
6/12/48: The Pirates of Penzance: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (S. M. Chartock Gilbert and Sullivan Co.), hour: 2030
6/19/48: Carmen: Philadelphia, Academy of Music (Cosmopolitan Opera Company), hour: 2015: Ethel Phillips Ballet
Carmen Rita Kolacz
Don José Frank Eckhardt
Escamillo Albert Rosenberg
Micaëla Lana de Rites
Fr asquita Jacqueline Hallowell
Mercédès Dora Marasco
Zuniga David German
role unknown John Helsel
role unknown William Lebing
maestro direttore Theodore Feinmann
9/24/48:
The Robin Hood Dell season was abruptly cancelled after three weeks. The Tosca scheduled with Eleanor
Steber and Dimitri Mitropoulos was not performed.
Iolanthe: Philadelphia, Town Hall (Strand Opera Company), hour: 2030: producer William S. Leedom; stage
director James Montgomery
The Lord Chancellor Karl Spaeth
Lord Mountararat Emil Markow
Earl Tolloller Richard Hannum
Private Willis, of the Grenadier Guards Frank Walnut
Strephon, an arcadian shepherd Robert Frankenberger
Queen of the fairies Irma Staurt
Iolanthe Doris Winder
Phyllis, an arcadian shepherdess Margaret B. Caveny
maestro direttore unknown
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