Poster advertising the programme at the Royal Opera Covent Garden for the evening of Wednesday 12 June 1912 featuring the one-act opera Il Segreto di Susanna and the Russian Ballet performing Le Carnival and Thamar. Letterpress, printed in black and green by Miles, Wardour Street, 1912.

Letterpress poster printed in black and green by Miles, Wardour Street, headed ROYAL OPERA COVENT GARDEN WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 at 8.15 featuring the details of the performers, creators and production staff of the three pieces produced that evening starting with the one-act opera Il Segreto di Susanna followed by the Russian Ballet performing Le Carnival and Thamar.

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The poster is printed with the names of the General Manager of the Royal Opera House Mr. Neil Forsyth, and the Managing Director Mr. Percy Pitt, and lists the cast of Il Segreto di Susanna, the one-act opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari sung in Italian as Signor G. Mario Sammarco as Il Conte Gil; Lydia Lipkowska as La Contessa Susanna, and M. Ambrosiny as the servant Sante. It was conducted by Signor Cleofonte Campanini.

Le Carnival is credited as a Pantomime-Ballet in 1 act by M. Fokine, music by Robert Schumann, orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov, Tcherepnin and Glazunov, scenes and dances by M. Michel Fokine, scenery and costumes designed by M. L. Bakst, scenery by M. Anisfeld and costumes by Mlle. Muelle. It lists the cast as Columbine - Mme. Tamar Karsavina; Chiarina- Mme. Piltz, Estrella - Mme. Baranovitch, Papillon Mme Nijinska; Arlequin - M. Nijinsky; Pierrot - M. Adolf Bolm, Pantalon - M. Cecchetti; Eusebius - M. Sergueiev; Florestan - M. Semenov; the Valse Noble - Mmes. Tcherepanova, Tchernyshova [sic], Wasilewska, Kopytsinska Guliuk, Baranovitch; M. Bourman, Kobelov, Romanov, Warzynski, Rachmanov, Zailich, and the Philistines - Mmes. Julitzka, Ezereska, and M. Oumansky and Goudin.

Thamar is credited as a choreographic drama in one act by M. L. Bakst, music by M. Balakirev, scenes and dances by M. Michel Fokine, scenery and costumes designed by M. L. Bakst, scenery executed by M. Charbey and Soudejkine, costumes executed by Mlle. Muelle. The cast is listed as Thamar, Reine de Georgie, Mme Tamara Karsavina; Le Prince, M. Adolf Bolm; Amies de Thamar - Mmes Nijinska, Piltz, Tchernyshova, Wasilewska, Konietska, Kopytsinska, Klementovitch, Baranovitch I, Baranovitch II, Maicherska, Staszko, Tcherepanova; the Zerghins Mme Kremnev, Bourman, Semenov, Kotchetovsky, Froman, Federov, Romanov, Rachmanov, Gavrilov, Zoboiko, Sergueiev, Kobelev; Servantes - Mmes. Kowalewska, Dobroloubova, Guliuk, Koultchytzka, Hohlova, Ezerska, Julitzka, Dombrovska, and the Serviteurs de Thamar - Mm. Warzinski, Zailik, Statkevitch, Kegler, Kostecki, Goudin, Oumansky, Zielinski. The conductors were M. Tcherepnin and Mr. Thomas Beecham; the Stage Director was M. O. Allegri and the Principal Stage Manager M. S. Grigoriev.

The prices of the boxes, stalls, balcony stalls, amphitheatre stalls and amphitheatre are given at the bottom of the poster, with a note that the doors open half an hour before the performance commences, and the name of the printer Miles of Wardour Street.

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