£37.50
Date 02/11/1932
London Old Vic Theatre – The Marriage Of Figaro – 1932
An original theatre programme for The Marriage Of Figaro at the Old Vic Theatre, London, dated 02/11/1932.
The cast included Joan Cross, Nora Sabini, Franklyn Kelsey, Thomas Hindmarch, Sumner Austin and Olive Dyer, performing Mozart’s comic masterpiece in the English-language opera seasons of the Vic-Wells company.
Featuring one of the great British sopranos of the century, this is a lovely example of old theatre programmes from the 1930s.
| Production | The Marriage Of Figaro |
|---|---|
| Venue | Old Vic Theatre – London |
| Cast | Joan Cross – Nora Sabini, Franklyn Kelsey – Thomas Hindmarch, Sumner Austin – Olive Dyer. |
Condition: V Good, cfld, Vlcr, slrs
Did you know?
- Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, premiered in Vienna in 1786.
- Joan Cross later created the role of Ellen Orford in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes in 1945.
- The opera company that sang at the Old Vic and Sadler’s Wells eventually became English National Opera.
SKU: T03231
