Title: La bohème
Date: Tuesday 27th & Friday 30th April 1976, Evening
Type: Opera
Company: English National Opera
Location: Theatre Royal, Norwich, England
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Librettist: Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Collection Number: 2402_1976_01

Cast

Marcel: Christian du Plessis
Rudolph: Michael Renier
Colline: John Tomlinson (27th), Clifford Grant (30th)
Schaunard: Patrick Wheatley
Benoit: Eric Shilling
Mimi: Barbara Walker (27th), Anne Evans (30th)
Parpignol: Ivor Morris
Musetta: Margaret Haggart
Alcindoro: Eric Shilling
Customs Sergeant: Gerald Holding
Customs Official: Roger Begley

Chorus:
Sopranos: Janice Andrew, Rachel Conway, Shelley Cuthbertson, Brenda Gale, Georgina Holley, Susan Maas, Jean Methven, Christine Przymenska, Frances Reid, Margaret Valery
Mezzo-Sopranos: Gillian Ashby, Helen Barker, Christine Bolton, Elaine Howarth, Jean Manning, Janet Mays, Jane Whitehead, Mildred Wood
Tenors: Derek Booth, Brian Casey, Raymund Dring, Frank Harvey, James Higgins, Elvet Hughes, Paul Janssen, Ivor Morris, Iaian Young
Basses: Roger Begley, Keith Bonnington, Maurice Bowen, Anthiny Brahms, Patrick Healy, Gerald Holding, William McGovern, Adam Sargent, Peter Tracey

Movement Group: Joanna Danby, Joanna Gale, Jae Mussett, Lesley Pottle, Mary Self, Jenny Weston, Jonathan Aiden, Victor Dear, David Hepurn, Roderick Marshall, Alexander Milaw, David Shelmerdine, David Wells

Children’s Chorus: Children from Hewett School, Norwich

Orchestra

First Violins:
Joyce Nixon (Leader)
Susheela Devi
Christine Riddoch
Ruth Benson
Michael Casey
Michael Fletcher
Norman Clarke
Elizabeth Hambleton

Second Violins:
Joseph Tuban
Adrian Taylor
John Hudson
Valerie Fink
Adrienne Sturdy
Jack Moir

Violas:
Roger Welch
Bernadine Knussen
Jenny Resson
Moira Watkinson

Cellos:
Karel Horitz
Iain Prestage
Geraldine Chalmers
Myrtle Bruce-Mitford

Basses:
Manny Shulman
Fred Mackay

Flutes:
Michael Axtell
Simon Hunt

Oboes:
John White
Andrew Cauthrey

Clarinets:
Hale Hambleton
Victor Slay,ark

Bassoons:
Brian Wightman
Allan Warhurst

Horns:
Francis Bradley
Albert Jenkins
Barrie North

Trumpets:
David Appleyard
Peter Goy

Trombones:
Antony Lincoln
Malcolm Frammingham
Stephen Saunders

Harp:
Audrey Webster

Timpani:
George Lawn

Percussion:
Jonathan Tolansky

Crew

For La bohème

Producer: John Blatchley
Designers: Motley Group (Margaret Harris, Sophie Harris, Elizabeth Montgomery)
Lighting: Charles Bristow
Staff Producer: Hugh Halliday

For English National Opera on Tour

Company Manager: Marie Pendjiky
Staff Producers: David Gollins, Hugh Halliday, Brenda Stanley
Head of Music Staff: Hazel Vivienne
Music Staff: David Sutton, Clive Timms, Tom Wade
Stage Manager: Andrew Killian
Deputy Stage Manager: Carolyn Soutar
Assistant Stage Manager: Ruth Sallis
Master Carpenter: Alan Coleshill
Chief Electrician: Ian Perkins
Property Master: Ron Baker
Wardrobe Master: John Wade
Wig Mistress: Carol Begley
Chorus Master: Hazel Vivienne
Assistant Chorus Master: Peter Ford
Director, Movement Group: Pauline Grant
Tour Assistant, Movement Group: David Wells
Orchestral Manager: Neil Feiling
Assistant Orchestral Manager: Marie Pendjiky

For English National Opera

Managing Director: Lord Harewood
Music Director: Charles Mackerras
Consultant Director: Glen Byam Shaw
Personal Director: Leon Fontaine
Finance Director: Caroline J. Phillips
Administrative Director: Rupert Rhymes
Technical Director: James Sargant
Production Director: Edmund Tracey

For the Theatre Royal

House Manager: Stanley C. Fuller
General Manager: Dick Condon
Stage Manager: Jack Bowhill
Chief Electrician: Billy Vann
Assistant Electrician: Gerry Amies
Assistant Stage Manager: Arthur Hoare
Sound Technician: Michael Wright
Stage Security Officer: Cyril Brown

Programme Printed By: Horsley Bros. Ltd., Ilford, Essex

Notes

Michael Renier replaced Ramon Remedios as Rudolph