Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Thirty opera programmes from the mid-1960s

Nine of the more famous productions and performances are listed below. These and 21 others may appeal to opera buffs of any age.

• Bellini's I Puritani. First performance of a new production. 20 March 1964. Conductor Richard Bonynge. Production and Scenery by Franco Zeffirelli. With Joan Sutherland.
• Beethoven's Fidelio. 24 March 1964. Conductor Norman del Mar. With John Vickers and Gre Brouwenstijn.
• Verdi's Otello. 17 April 1964. Conductor Georg Solti. With Tito Gobbi and Raina Kabaivanska.
• Richard Strauss's Arabella. 29 January 1965. Conductor Georg Solti. With Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Lisa Della Casa.
• Mozart's Don Giovanni. 23 February 1965. Conductor Rudolf Kempe. With Fritz Wunderlich and Pilar Lorengar.  
• Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. 3 May 1965. Conductor Richard Bonynge. With Joan Suherland and Andre Turp.
• Mussougsky's Boris Godunov. 7 January 1966. Conductor Edward Downes. With Boris Christoff, Otakar Krauss and David Kelly.
• Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride. 11 April 1966. Conductor John Pritchard. With Josephine Veasey and Jules Bruyere.
• Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. 1 June 1966. Conductor Isvan Kertesz. With Lucia Popp, Jon Vickers and Rita Gorr.

Also: Carmen, Das Rheingold, Der Rosenkavalier, Don Carlos, Elektra, Fidelio, Il Trittico (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi), La Traviata (two), Le Nozze di Figaro, Madama Butterfly, Midsummer Night's Dream (Benjamin Britten's opera, produced by John Gielgud), Otello, Parsifal, Siegfried, Simon Boccanegra (first performance of a new production with Tito Gobbi as producer and Oliviero de Fabritis as conductor, and with Gobbi, Orianna Santunione and Renato Cioni singing some of the main roles), Tales of Hoffmann (two), and Tosca.