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Performance TitleA Night of Opera and Operetta - Jan Kiepura and Marta Eggerth
Performance Date3 October 1954
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersJan Kiepura,
Marta Eggerth - vocals,
Ivor Newton - piano
Set ListDuet - 'Manon, Act I', Massenet (Marta Eggerth, Jan Kiepura, Ivor Newton),
Aria - 'E Lucevan Le Stelle' (Tosca)', Puccini (Jan Kiepura, Ivor Newton),
'La Danza' (Tarantella)', Rossini (Jan Kiepura, Ivor Newton),
'Plaisir D'Amour', Martini (Marta Eggerth, Ivor Newton),
'Bonjour Suson', Delibes (Marta Eggerth, Ivor Newton),
'Serenade', Schubert (Marta Eggerth, Ivor Newton),
'Ave Maria', Schubert (Marta Eggerth, Ivor Newton),
Aria -'Jontka Szumia Jodly' (Halka)', Moniuszko (Jan Kiepura, Ivor Newton),
'Polish Folk Dance' (Kujawiak)', Wienawski, Kiepura (Jan Kiepura, Ivor Newton),
'Mazurka', Chopin (Marta Eggerth, Ivor Newton),
'Fekete Fod', Bartok (Marta Eggerth, Ivor Newton),
'Asszonyok', Bartok (Marta Eggerth, Ivor Newton),
'Hejre Kati Csardas', Hubay (Marta Eggerth, Ivor Newton),
Duet - 'I'll See You Again' (Bitter Sweet)', Noel Coward (Marta Eggerth, Jan Kiepura, Ivor Newton),
'Na Ust Koralu', Marczewski (Jan Kiepura, Ivor Newton),
'Tell Me Tonight' (Tell Me Tonight)', Spolianski (Jan Kiepura, Ivor Newton),
'Sag's Mir Immer Wieder' (Unfinished Symphony)', Schmit-Gentner (Marta Eggerth, Ivor Newton),
'Viennese Medley', Strauss-Stolz-Sieczynski (Marta Eggerth, Ivor Newton),
'Merry Widow Medley', Lehar (Marta Eggerth, Jan Kiepura, Ivor Newton)
Performance Notes"When the Polish singer Jan Kiepura left the Albert Hall, London, after a concert yesterday he was greeted by over 2,000 admirers, many of them Polish exiles. He stood on the bonnet of his car and sang folk songs for half an hour before leaving."
(The Times, 4 October 1954, Page 4)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1954/124)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1954/127A Night of Opera and Operetta - Jan Kiepura and Marta Eggerth3 October 1954
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Owlovchean_BusA Night of Opera and Operetta - Jan Kiepura and Marta Eggerth1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1091Kiepura; Jan Wiktor (1902-1966); Polish tenor, actor
DS/UK/18406Eggerth; Marta (1912-2013); Hungarian-born coloratura soprano, actress
DS/UK/1208Newton; Ivor (1892-1981); CBE; English pianist
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