Glasgow was always fertile ground for the Carl Rosa company, and they gave considerably more performances there than in the other Scottish cities. Indeed some years, as in 1947, the four weeks in Scotland, commencing 21 April, were spent entirely in Glasgow. The operas given were a fairly standard group, by Verdi (Rigoletto, Trovatore, Traviata); Puccini (Bohème, Butterfly); Mascagni (Cavalleria Rusticana); Leoncavallo (Pagliacci); Gounod (Faust); Offenbach (Tales of Hoffmann); Bizet (Carmen) and Wagner (Flying Dutchman).
Perhaps the most notable feature of this group is the arrival on the scene of the excellent lyric soprano Victoria Elliott. She was soon to became a leading member of the Sadler's Wells company.
Cast details are from a programme for Tuesday, 13 May, in the Gardiner Collection (Mitchell Library). This also relates to the previous evening's Tosca.
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