The Marriage of Figaro, 1952 July

Program from the Central City Opera House Association's 1952 production of "The Marriage of Figaro."

Cast includes: Virginia Mac Watters (Susanna), James Pease and Michael Bondon (Figaro), Elinor Warren (Marcellina), Chester Watson (Don Bartolo), Frances Bible (Cherubino), Frank Valentino (Count Almaviva), Luigi Vellucci (Don Basilio), Anne Bollinger and Jean Gibbons (Countess Almaviva), Algerd Brazis (Antonio), Charles Post (Don Curzio), Helen Laird (Barbarina), Dean Hutchins (Major Domo), Jack Litten, Ben Hoagland, Floyd Hershberger, and Jack D'Arcy (lackeys), Winifred Linsenmaier, Marcia Case, Joan Simons, Joanne Orr Roth (peasant girls), Genevieve Barr, Helen Corcoran, Ann Nell Palmer, Sandra Caldwell, Connie Lujan, Sally Lou Snyder, Janis Walz, and Shirley Hartman (vilage girls), Irene Branning and Juanita Smith (flower girls), Penny Belford, Pam Belford, and Betsy Swartwood (wedding ushers), Jimmy Powers, Danny Beggs, Barry Thomas, and Billy Vickery (blackamoors), Edwin A Austin, Charles Eller, John Cole, Ralph Bishop, and Norbert Goldman (court attendants), Albert M Reese, Samuel Lavitsky, John R Kelsey, and Ross S Epistein (musicians), and Patricia Bowman, Nancee Heimbecher, Beverly James, Lizabeth Sweet, Joan Tenny, George Neighbors, Hyrum Somers, and James Tenny (dancers).
Production staff includes: Tibor Kozma (musical director), Elemer Nagy (scenic/costume design), Walter Taussig (associate conductor), Florence Lamont Hinman (chorus master), Lillian Cushing (ballet director), Maxine Williamson (assistant to Ms. Cushing), Irene Kahn (assistant to Dr. Nagy), and Hans Sondheimer (production stage manager).