Presented on Dec 13, 17, 20m at the Gaiety Theatre Dublin as part of the Dublin Grand Opera Society’s Winter Season
Ruth Packer / Joyce Gartside[Dec 13] – Cio-Cio San Ivan Dixon / Henry Wendon[Dec 13] – Pinkerton Patricia Black – Suzuki Roderick Jones / Arthur Copley[Dec 20m] – Sharpless Joseph Flood – Goro Dermot Browner – Bonze / Yamadori Molly Murphy – Kate
Arthur Hammond – Conductor Sydney Russell – Producer
Sharpless (Roderick Jones) and Pinkerton (Henry Wendon) in “Madama Butterfly” Gaiety Theatre Dublin, December 1947
Cio-Cio San (Joyce Gartside) and Pinkerton (Henry Wendon) with the chorus in “Madama Butterfly” Gaiety Theatre Dublin, December 1947 (Monica Condron fifth from right)
Goro (Joseph Flood), Sharpless (Roderick Jones) and Pinkerton (Henry Wendon) in “Madama Butterfly” Gaiety Theatre Dublin, December 1947
Patricia Black (Suzuki), Cio-Cio San (Joyce Gartside) and the chorus in “Madama Butterfly” Gaiety Theatre Dublin, December 1947 (Monica Condron second from left)
Patricia Black (Suzuki), Pinkerton (Henry Wendon), Cio-Cio San (Joyce Gartside) and the chorus in “Madama Butterfly” Gaiety Theatre Dublin, December 1947
Pinkerton (Henry Wendon), Cio-Cio San (Joyce Gartside) and the chorus are confronted by the Bonze (Dermot Browner) in “Madama Butterfly” Gaiety Theatre Dublin, December 1947
Pinkerton (Henry Wendon), Goro (Joseph Flood), Cio-Cio San (Joyce Gartside) and the chorus listen as the Bonze (Dermot Browner) passes judgement in “Madama Butterfly” Gaiety Theatre Dublin, December 1947
We THINK these photos show Ivan Dixon, Ruth Packer and Roderick Jones in “Madame Butterfly” – the “second cast” for Winter 1947 – but we’re not absolutely sure as photos were customarily taken at dress rehearsals of the first cast. We already have photos of Henry Wendon and Joyce Gartside (“first cast” – as above) from the same run of performances. Can anybody shed some light?
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