NBC Television Opera Theatre (1949) | Full Cast

Kirk Browning

DIRECTOR

Charles Polachek

DIRECTOR

John Bloch

DIRECTOR

E. Roger Muir

DIRECTOR

John Schwartz

DIRECTOR

Virginia Haskins

Lauretta

Ralph Herbert

Figaro

Elaine Malbin

Sister Angelica

Leon Lishner

King Balthazar

Rosemary Kuhlmann

Amahl's Mother

Davis Cunningham

Almaviva

Paul Ukena

Father

Francis Monachino

Guard

Andrew McKinley

King Caspar

Kenneth Smith

Brigham Young

David Lloyd

Chaplain

Leontyne Price

Donna Anna

David Poleri

Don Jose

Warren Galjour

Escamillo

Winifred Heidt

Countess Anna

Wilma Spence

Marschallin

Johnny Silver

Blind

Laurel Hurley

Countess Almaviva

Judith Raskin

Ann Louisa Brice

Vera Bryner

Carmen

Frances Bible

Octavian

Joseph Mordino

Alfredo

Robert Marshall

Rinuccio

Beverly Wolff

Dinah

Joan Moynagh

Sister Genevieve

Ann Crowley

Cherubino

Lee Case

Arkel

Nadja Witkowska

Costanza

Jean Handzlik

Self

Carlton Gauld

Don Basilio

William Shriner

Count Almaviva

Kent Smith

Preacher

Emile Renan

Doctor Bartolo

Manfred Hecht

Faninal

Frank Porretta

Self - Tenor

David Williams

Malcolm

Virginia Copeland

Annina

Robert Rounseville

Chevalier de la Force

John Reardon

Papageno

Alfred Wallenstein

Self - Conductor

Michael Pollock

Spoletta

David Aiken

King Melchior

Conchita Gaston

Suzuki

Paul Franck

Babylas

Donald Gramm

Hortensio

John Alexander

Captain James Dee

Chester Watson

Father Julien

Marie Powers

Miss Todd the old maid

Ethel Barrymore

Narrator

Marion Bell

Jennie Parsons

David Cunningham

Hoffmann

Larry Weber

Stuart Offenbach

Chet Allen

Amahl

Robert Weede

Michel

Theodore Uppman

Billy Budd

Charles Igor Gorin

Rigoletto

Giorgio Tozzi

Self - Bass

Virginia MacWatters

Laetitia the maid

Bronislau Kaper

Eisenstein

William McGraw

Brack Weaver

George Britton

Lindorf

Frances Lehnerts

Hansel

David Atkinson

Sam

Patricia Neway

Lady Macbeth

Shannon Bolin

The Princess

Lorna Sidney

Herodias

Richard Cassilly

Michele

Dorothy Coulter

Gilda

Phyllis Curtin

Self - Soprano

Norman Young

Bob the thief

Andrew Gainey

Escemillio

Ray Jacquemot

Bouche

Dorothy Etheridge

Olympia

Constance Brigham

Jazz Trio

Margarita Zambrana

Lisa

Maria di Gerlando

Carmela

Josh Wheeler

Baron Scarpia

Oreste Kirkop

The Duke of Mantua

Elaine Bonazzi

The Spy

Ellen Faull

Miss Pinkerton the village gossip

Claramae Turner

Mother

Dorothy Warenskjold

Antonia

Adele Bishop

Adele

Elizabeth Carron

Frasquita

George Irving

Monsieur Cauliflower

Jack Russell

Silvio

Robert Kole

Jazz Trio

Margery Mayer

Babila

Virgina Viney

The Abbes

William Boehm

Macduff

John Cassavetes

Jokanaan

Mary Kreste

The Abbes

Robert White

The Old Man

Nicholas Di Virgilio

Self - Tenor

Liam Sullivan

the Cop

Beatrice Kane

Mercedes

William Harder

Jazz Trio

Guy Tano

Narrator

Emalina DeVita

Mercedes

Sandra Warfield

The Monitor of Novices

Ruth Kobart

Mistress of Novices

Mary Davenport

Queen Genevieve

Gene Barry

Orlovsky

Frederic Franklin

Dancer

David Atkinson

ACTOR

Norman Atkins

Jokanaan

Mia Slavenska

Dancer

Howard Fried

Red Whiskers

Jim Boles

ACTOR

Nikiforos Naneris

The Bellboy

Robert Goss

Donald

Edward Moor

ACTOR

John West

Death's Assistant

Robert Holland

Squeak

Bob Rickner

Executive Director's Secretary

Roy Raymond

The First Mate

William Ryan

Arthur Jones

John Zadorozny

ACTOR

John Kuhn

ACTOR

Joseph Boardman

ACTOR

Holger Sørensen

Sharpless

Tomiko Kanazawa

Cio Cio San, Madame Butterfly

Sonia Stollin

The Girl

John Raitt

Petruchio

Susan Stollin

Bianca

Susan Yager

Kate

Robert Culp

Lackey

George Gaynes

Dancing Master

Ross Martin

Dorante

Charlotte Rae

Mrs. Jourdain

Wally Cox

Jourdain

Jacques Aubuchon

Music Master

Nancy Wickwire

Dorimene

Roy Dean

Fencing Master

Frederic Tozere

Philosopher

Mary Hinkson

Dancer

Joe Simonelli

ACTOR

N.B.C. Opera Company

Choir

William Lewis

Tamino

Hugh Thompson

Pierre Cauchon

Adelaide Bishop

Papagena

Helena Scott

Natasha

Kirk Jordan

Amahl

Cesare Siepi

Don Giovanni

Nico Castel

ACTOR

Linda Newman

Lucia

Jerold Siena

ACTOR

Richard Torigi

Enrico

Michael Trimble

Edgardo

Joan Caplan

ACTOR