page_title: Edinburgh Grand Opera
section_title: Semi and fully staged operas
hierarchical_section_title: Edinburgh Grand Opera / Performances / Semi and fully staged operas
caption_attribution_description: English: Press call for La traviata 2013 at the Scottish National Gallery
context_page_description: Edinburgh Grand Opera is Scotland's oldest existing grand opera company,
  founded in 1955 by Richard Telfer. This Edinburgh Music Society is run by its non-professional chorus with advice and support from the professional Artistic and Musical Directors and Designers it engages. It was originally known as the Edinburgh Grand Opera Group, and it has also been referred to as Edinburgh Grand Opera Company. Its soloists are a mixture of amateur, semi-professional and professional singers from Scotland and abroad, many of whom are students or graduates from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. It was the first amateur company to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.
context_section_description: Performances include fully staged and semi-staged operas, as well as gala concerts and other fundraising musical events in theatres and concert halls in Edinburgh and nearby towns and cities. The company usually sings in the language in which the libretto was originally written. The season runs from September each year. The list below shows performances in Edinburgh, unless otherwise stated.
  1955 Carmen semi-staged. Usher Hall.
  1956 Lucia di Lammermoor semi-staged. Artistic Director Richard Telfer; Administrative Director Ian Ross.
  1957 Maritana semi-staged. Conductor Richard Telfer; Director Hubert Dunkerley; Soloists included Jean Muir, Helen Lippiatt (Maritana); Archibald Grigor (Don Caesar de Bazan); Catherine McQueenie (Lazarillo). Nabucco Artistic Director Richard Telfer; Conductor Alexander Gibson; Administrative Director Ian Ross; Soloists William Dickie (Nabucco); David Ward (Zaccaria); Jean Muir (Abigaille), Helen Lippiatt.
  1958 Les Huguenots semi-staged. Usher Hall. 5 April1958. Artistic Director Richard Telfer; Conductor Michael Moores; Producer Robert J Buchanan; Administrative Director Ian Ross; Soloists included David Ward (Marcel), Jean Muir (Valentine), Helen Lippiatt (Marguerite de Valois), Maureen McMahon (Urbain), Kenneth MacDonald (Sir Raoul de Nangis), Julian Smith (St Bris), William Tiplady (De Nevers).
  1959... semi-staged.
  1960 Semele semi-staged. Nabucco concert performance alongside Glasgow Grand Opera Society and Scottish National Orchestra. St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow 2 February. Conductor Alexander Gibson; Artistic Director Richard Telfer; Soloists Rosina R aisbeck, Ava June, David Ward, Raimund Herincx, Alfred Hallett.
  1961 Der Freischutz semi-staged.
  1962 L'elisir d'amore semi-staged. Pagliacci concert performance. Leith Town Hall, January.
  1963 Faust Leith Theatre, January Soloists John Robertson (Faust) (The Bartered Bride)...
  1964 Tales of Hoffman Leith Theatre, February.Soloists John Robertson (Hoffman)
  1965 Carmen Leith Theatre Soloists John Robertson (Don Jose)
  1966 Nabucco Leith Theatre.
  1967...semi-staged
  1968 The Bartered Bride
  1969 Un ballo in maschera Musical Director Neville Garden; Producer Isobel Garden; Repetiteur Hugh McDonald; Soloists John Shiels (Renato), Iain Dunn (Gustavo), Sheila Cave and...(Amelia), Ivor Klayman (Silvano).
  1970 Martha Musical Director Neville Garden; Producer Isobel Garden; Repetiteur Hugh McDonald; Soloists Sheila McNab (Martha), Ian McNab (Lionel), Joan Busby (Nancy), Ivor Klayman (Plunkett), Dick Jackson (Sir Tristram Mickelford).
  1971 Macbeth Musical Director Neville Garden; Producer Isobel Garden; Soloists John Shiels (Macbeth), Ivor Klayman (Macbeth on Thursday and Banquo, sung from the pit, on Tuesday and Wednesday), Sheilah McNab (Lady Macbeth), Colin Watson (Banquo Thursday), John Monfries (MacDuff).
  1972 Die Fledermaus Musical Director Neville Garden; Producer Isobel Garden; Soloists Tony Giovanazzi (Eisenstein), Ivor Klayman (Falke), …Dunn (Adele), Maisie Forrest (Roselinda), Katrine Townhill (Orlofsky), Geoff Wall (Frank), Roland York (Frosch), Ian Dunn (Alfred)
  1973 Tales of Hoffman King's Theatre. Musical Director Neville Garden; Producer Isobel Garden; Soloists Alan Borthwick and ... (Hoffman); John Shiels and Ivor Klayman (The 4 Villains), Katrine Townhill (Nicklausse), Tony Gioanazzi (The 4 Servants), Chris Watson and Sheilah McNab (Olympia), Maisie Forrest (Giulietta), ...(Antonia), Colin Watson (Crespel), Cathie McQueenie (voice of Antonia’s mother), Geoff Wall (Lindorff).
  1974 La bohème Kings Theatre. Frank Carroll (Marcello), Frances Carroll (Musetta)...
  1975 Eugene Onegin King’s Theatre. Musical Director James McDowall; Producer Iain Dunn; Soloists Ivor Klayman (Onegin), Sheilah McNab (Tatiana), Cathie McQueenie (Olga), Ian McNab (Lensky), Colin Watson (Gremin), Alec Jolly (Triquet), ...(Larina).
  1976 Nabucco King's Theatre. Musical Director James McDowall; Soloists Ivor Klayman and Bill Dewar (Nabucco), Maisie Forrest and ... (Abigaille), Tom Jamieson (Ismael), Isobel Mann (Fenena).
  1977 Carmen King's Theatre.
  1978 Faust King's Th
caption: Press Call for La Traviata 2013 at the Scottish National Gallery with Ralph Strehle and Rachael Brimley.
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