Title: Rigoletto
Date: Saturday 9th February 1946, Evening
Type: Opera
Company: Sadler’s Wells Opera
Location: Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave, translated into English by Edward J. Dent
Conductor: Reginald Goodall
Collection Folder: Folder 10B

Cast

Duke of Mantua: Tom Culbert
Matteo Borsa, a Courtier: Rhys Williams
Countess of Ceprano: Kate Jackson
Rigoletto, a Hunchback, the Duke’s Jester: Roderick Jones
Marullo, a Courtier: Eric Shilling
Count of Monterone: John Hugo
Sparafucile, a Bravo, Hired Murderer: Owen Brannigan
Gilda, Daughter of Rigoletto: Linda Parker
Giovanna, her Nurse: Netta Leggat
Pages to the Duchess of Mantua: Muriel Burnett, Keturah Sorrell
Usher: Eldon Guller
Maddalena, Sparafucile’s Sister: Valetta Iacopi

Courtiers, Guards, etc.: Barbara Britton, Rose Carlotn, Alice Harding, Margaret Lane, Netta Leggat, Elsie Price, Blanche Turner, William Benn, William Booth, Albert Digney, George Gorst, Eldon Guller, John Havard, Cecil Lloyd, Haydn Meredith, Erin Tosi, Herbert Tree, Vaughan Williams

Dancers: Pamela Chrimes, June Day, Pauline Wadsworth, Allan Baker, Michael Hogan, Kenneth MacMillan

Crew

For Rigoletto

Director: Sumner Austin
Dance Arranging: Nancy McNaught
Decor and Costume Design: Frederick Cooke
Costume Making: Maria Garde
Wig Making: Bert

For the Sadler’s Wells Opera

General Manager and Licensee, Sadler’s Wells Theatre: George Chamberlain
Director of Opera: Clive Carey

Musical Director: Lawrance Collingwood
General Manager: Bruce Worsley
Secretary: Sheila Fergusson
Press Representative: David Fairweather

Stage Director: John Wright
Stage Manager: John Greenwood
Chorus Master: Alan Melville
Music Staff: Ivan Clayton, Albert Knowles, Walter Wiltshire