Richard Temple Savage in Royal Opera House - 1953

from A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician, page 140:

He was with us through 1952 and 1953 for more splendid [sic] "Rosenkavaliers", "Tristan" and a marvellous new "Elektra" with Edith Coates as a tremendous Clytemnestra, after which we were to see him no more.
cite as

Richard Temple Savage, A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician (Newton Abbot, 1988), p. 140. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1433701348308 accessed: 19 March, 2024

location of experience: Royal Opera House

Listeners

Richard Temple Savage
clarinettist music librarian, writer, music librarian, Clarinetist, Writer
1909-

Listening to

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'Elektra'
written by Richard Strauss
performed by Covent Garden Opera Company, Edith Coates, Erich Kleiber

Experience Information

Date/Time 1953
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by iepearson on Sun, 07 Jun 2015 19:22:28 +0100
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 16:10:58 +0000