Chelsea Opera Group

Click on an opera title to see the cast (where available).
Casts are generally not shown for concerts where the COG has provided the orchestra or chorus for an event promoted by another organisation.

Here is this list sorted on the other columns:
By Opera
By Composer
By Conductor

and here is a sortable XL spreadsheet containing the full cast of each opera:
Participants List (as at November 2024)

1950-1959

Year	Opera	Composer	Conductor
1950	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Le Nozze di Figaro	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Colin Davis
	The Impresario	Mozart	Colin Davis
1951	Die Entführung	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Così fan tutte	Mozart	Colin Davis
1952	Die Zauberflöte	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Le Nozze di Figaro	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Die Entführung	Mozart	Colin Davis
1953	Fidelio	Beethoven	Colin Davis
	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Così fan tutte	Mozart	Colin Davis
1954	The Impresario	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Der Freischütz	Weber	Colin Davis
	Die Zauberflöte	Mozart	Colin Davis
1955	Idomeneo	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Mozart Concert including scenes from Zaide	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Fidelio	Beethoven	Colin Davis
1956	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Le Nozze di Figaro	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Falstaff	Verdi	Colin Davis
1957	Die Zauberflöte	Mozart	Colin Davis
	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Nicolai	Colin Davis
	Così Fan Tutte	Mozart	Leon Lovett
1958	Don Giovanni (with professional orch)	Mozart	Colin Davis
	La Damnation de Faust	Berlioz	Meredith Davies
	La Dame Blanche	Boieldieu	Bryan Balkwill
	Die Entführung	Mozart	Bernard Keefe
	Le Nozze di Figaro	Mozart	Bernard Keefe
1959	Der Fliegende Holländer	Wagner	Maurits Sillem
	Mozart & Beethoven Concert incl. The Impresario	Mozart/ Beethoven	Colin Davis
	La Forza del Destino	Verdi	Maurits Sillem

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1960-1969

Year	Opera	Composer	Conductor
1960	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Brian Priestman
	“Summer Concert” incl. scenes from Zaide	Mozart	Colin Davis
	The Tunnel		James Robertson
	Die Zauberflöte	Mozart	Brian Priestman
1961	Carmen	Bizet	Maurits Sillem
	La Périchole	Offenbach	James Robertson
	Roméo et Juliette	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	Così fan tutte	Mozart	Brian Priestman
	Silas Marner	Joubert	Alan Boustead
1962	Der Freischütz	Weber	James Loughran
	The Three Pintos	Weber/Mahler	David Lloyd-Jones
	La Damnation de Faust	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	La Damnation de Faust (Chorus with LSO at Prom)	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	Idomeneo	Mozart	Meredith Davies
1963	Fidelio	Beethoven	James Loughran
	The Peasant Rogue	Dvorak	David Lloyd-Jones
	Les Troyens (La Prise de Troie)	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	Il Barbiere di Siviglia	Rossini	Meredith Davies
	Béatrice et Bénédict (Chorus with LSO)	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	Roméo et Juliette (Chorus with BBCSO)	Berlioz	Colin Davis
1964	Falstaff	Verdi	Guy Woolfenden
	L’Arlesienne	Bizet	James Robertson
	Les Troyens (Les Troyens à Carthage)	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	Grande Messe des Morts (Chorus in St.Paul's)	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	Don Giovanni	Mozart	John Matheson
1965	Simon Boccanegra	Verdi	Guy Woolfenden
	Bluebeard	Offenbach	James Robertson
	Benvenuto Cellini	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	Le Nozze di Figaro	Mozart	Roger Norrington
1966	Eugene Onegin	Tchaikovsky	Guy Woolfenden
	The Poacher	Lortzing	James Robertson
	La Forza del Destino	Verdi	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Grande Messe des Morts	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	Die Entführung	Mozart	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Les Troyens (La Prise de Troie) (Chorus with LSO)	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	Les Troyens (Les Troyens à Carthage) (Chorus with LSO)	Berlioz	Colin Davis
1967	Otello	Verdi	Mario Bernardi
	The Travelling Companion	Stanford	James Robertson
	Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.Act 3	Wagner	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Les Troyens (Les Troyens à Carthage)	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	Choral Symphony	Beethoven	Leopold Stokowsky
	Così Fan Tutte	Mozart	John Eliot Gardiner
1968	Boris Godunov	Mussorgsky	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Aida	Verdi	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Les Troyens (both parts) (Chorus with LSO at Proms)	Berlioz	Colin Davis
	Idomeneo	Mozart	Roger Norrington
1969	L'Enfance du Christ	Berlioz	Roger Norrington
	Euryanthe	Weber	Nicholas Braithwaite
	The Grand Duchess of Gérolstein	Offenbach	James Robertson
	La Damnation de Faust	Berlioz	John Matheson
	Grande Messe des Morts (Chorus at St. Paul's Cathedral)	Berlioz
	Grande Messe des Morts (Chorus at Prom)	Berlioz
	The Rake’s Progress	Stravinsky	Roger Norrington

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1970-1979

Year	Opera	Composer	Conductor
1970	Guillaume Tell	Rossini	John Matheson
	L’Etoile	Chabrier	James Robertson
	Roméo et Juliette	Berlioz	Roger Norrington
	Der Fliegende Holländer	Wagner	Nicholas Braithwaite
	L’Enfance du Christ	Berlioz	Roger Norrington
1971	Concert	Beethoven	Patrick Thomas
	Khovanschchina	Mussorgsky	Roderick Brydon
	Seamus O’Brien	Stanford	James Robertson
	Don Carlos	Verdi	John Matheson
	Iphigénie en Tauride	Gluck	Christopher Seaman
1972	The Dream of Gerontius	Elgar	Roderick Brydon
	Moïse	Rossini	John Matheson
	La Fille de Mme Angot	Lecocq	James Robertson
	Falstaff	Verdi	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Choral Concert	Bach/Walton/Schubert	Alan Reddish
	Bluebeard’s Castle/Psalmus Hungaricus	Bartok/Kodaly	Roderick Brydon
1973	Choral Symphony	Beethoven	John Matheson
	Die Zauberflöte	Mozart	Andrew Davis
	Turandot	Puccini	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Russlan and Ludmilla	Glinka	Roderick Brydon
1974	Mathis der Maler	Hindemith	Roderick Brydon
	Eugene Onegin	Tchaikovsky	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Un Ballo in Maschera	Verdi	Alan Suttie
1975	Les Pêcheurs de Perles	Bizet	Philip Simms
	Fidelio	Beethoven	Colin Davis
	Daphnis et Chloé/L'Enfant et Les Sortileges	Ravel	Roderick Brydon
	Peter Grimes	Britten	Nicholas Braithwaite
1976	Porgy & Bess	Gershwin	Simon Rattle
	La Clemenza di Tito	Mozart	James Judd
	Aida	Verdi	John Matheson
	The Queen of Spades	Tchaikovsky	Roderick Brydon
1977	Les Vêpres Siciliennes	Verdi	John Matheson
	Salome	Strauss	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Concert	Berlioz & Verdi	Howard Williams
	Les Troyens (La Prise de Troie)	Berlioz	Roger Norrington
	The Kingdom (Salisbury)	Elgar	Richard Seal
1978	Feuersnot & Drei Hymnen	Strauss	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Jenufa	Janacek	Mark Elder
	Concert including excerpts from Porgy & Bess (Chorus at RAH)	Gershwin	Lukas Vis
	La Damnation de Faust	Berlioz	John Matheson
	Les Troyens (Les Troyens à Carthage)	Berlioz	Roger Norrington
	Enigma Variations & Sea Symphony (Salisbury)	Elgar/RVW	Richard Seal
1979	The Jacobin	Dvorak	Stephen Barlow
	Simon Boccanegra	Verdi	Howard Williams
	Te Deum	Berlioz	Martin Neary
	Benvenuto Cellini	Berlioz	Roger Norrington
	Concert (Salisbury)	Elgar/Holst/Bruckner	Richard Seal

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1980-1989

Year	Opera	Composer	Conductor
1980	Mazeppa	Tchaikovsky	Mark Elder
	Carmen	Bizet	Roger Norrington
	Idomeneo	Mozart	Richard Hickox
	The Dream of Gerontius (Salisbury)	Elgar	Richard Seal
1981	Manon Lescaut	Puccini	Howard Williams
	Béatrice et Bénédict	Berlioz	Stephen Barlow
	Oberon	Weber	Howard Williams
	Concert (Salisbury)	Belshazzar/Verdi	Richard Seal
1982	Troilus & Cressida	Walton	Roderick Brydon
	Otello	Verdi	Nicholas Braithwaite
	L'Esule di Roma (Chorus at QEH)	Donizetti	Leslie Head
	Roméo et Juliette	Berlioz	Anthony Hose
	Verdi Requiem (Salisbury)	Verdi	Richard Seal
1983	Gloriana	Britten	Nicholas Cleobury
	Tannhäuser	Wagner	James Judd
	Recording Sessions	Bridge	Howard Williams
	Alceste	Gluck	Laszlo Heltay
	War Requiem (Salisbury)	Britten	Richard Seal
1984	Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk	Shostakovich	Howard Williams
	Macbeth	Verdi	Antony Shelley
	The Bartered Bride	Smetana	Lionel Friend
	The Apostles (Salisbury)	Elgar	Richard Seal
1985	Friedenstag & 4 Last Songs	Strauss	Nicholas Cleobury
	Turandot	Puccini	Antony Shelley
	Four Sacred Pieces & other works	Verdi	Andrew Parrott
	Hercules	Handel	Brian Wright
	A Child of Our Time (Salisbury)	Tippett	Richard Seal
1986	The Snow Maiden	Rimsky Korsakov	Howard Williams
	Missa Solemnis (Salisbury)	Beethoven	Richard Seal
	La Forza del Destino	Verdi	Nicholas Cleobury
	Recording of music by Frank Bridge	Bridge	Howard Williams
	The Rake's Progress	Stravinsky	John Lubbock
	Christmas Oratorio (Salisbury)	Bach	Richard Seal
1987	The Maid of Orleans	Tchaikovsky	Paul Daniel
	Hymnus Paradisi / The Bells	Howells/Rachmaninov	Richard Seal
	Boris Godunov	Mussorgsky	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Ivan IV	Bizet	Howard Williams
	Concert (Salisbury)	Elgar/Bruch/Poulenc	Richard Seal
1988	Nelson	Berkeley	Grant Llewellyn
	St. Georges Day Concert (Salisbury)	Various	Richard Seal
	La Gioconda	Ponchielli	Antony Shelley
	Gala Evening of Italian Opera	Various	Antony Shelley
	La Vestale	Spontini	Adrian Brown
	A Sea Symphony (Salisbury)	Vaughan-Williams	Richard Seal
1989	St. Matthew Passion (Salisbury)	Bach	Richard Seal
	Thaïs	Massenet	Michael Lloyd
	Nabucco	Verdi	Grant Llewellyn
	Gala Evening of Romantic opera at Chichester Festival	Various	Grant Llewellyn
	Onegin weekend at Wimbledon	Tchaikovsky	Adrian Brown
	Belshazzar's Feast/Symphony of Psalms/Pictures at an Exhibition	Walton/Stravinsky/ Mussorgsky	Richard Seal

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1990-1999

Year	Opera	Composer	Conductor
1990	Daphne	Strauss	Norman Del Mar
	Grande Messe des Morts (Chorus with other choirs)	Berlioz	Adrian Brown
	The Kingdom (Salisbury)	Elgar	Richard Seal
	Ernani	Verdi	Howard Williams
	Opera di Verdi at Chichester Festival	Verdi	Howard Williams
	New Zealand at Covent Garden	Various	Various
	Mefistofele	Boito	Andrew Greenwood
	The Dream of Gerontius (Salisbury)	Elgar	Richard Seal
1991	Hérodiade	Massenet	Michael Lloyd
	La Rondine	Puccini	Adrian Brown
	A Sea Symphony at Chichester Festival	RVW	Nicholas Braithwaite
	The Olympians	Bliss	Martyn Brabbins
	Choral Symphony (Salisbury)	Beethoven	Richard Seal
1992	Le Siège de Corinthe	Rossini	Howard Williams
	St.John Passion (Salisbury)	Bach	Richard Seal
	Manon Lescaut	Puccini	Andrew Greenwood
	Le Roi Malgré Lui	Chabrier	Michael Lloyd
	Berlioz Te Deum + other works (Salisbury)	Berlioz/Dyson/ Britten	David Halls
1993	Aroldo	Verdi	Edward Downes
	Requiem (Salisbury)	Verdi	David Halls
	Benvenuto Cellini	Berlioz	Adrian Brown
	The Christmas Slippers	Tchaikovsky	Martyn Brabbins
	Concert at Salisbury	RVW/Elgar/Finzi/ Britten	David Halls
1994	Le Rossignol/ Djamileh	Stravinsky/Bizet	Michael Lloyd
	B Minor Mass (Salisbury)	Bach	David Halls
	Francesca da Rimini	Zandonai	Nicholas Braithwaite
	The Brandenburgers in Bohemia	Smetana	Vilem Tausky
	The Apostles (Salisbury)	Elgar	David Halls
1995	La Battaglia di Legnano	Verdi	Grant Llewellyn
	War Requiem (Salisbury)	Britten	David Halls
	Koanga	Delius	David Lloyd-Jones
	Tannhäuser	Wagner	Martyn Brabbins
	Christmas Oratorio (Salisbury)	Bach	David Halls
1996	Gwendoline	Chabrier	Andrew Greenwood
	Concert (Salisbury)	RVW/Delius/Matthias	David Halls
	Iris	Mascagni	Howard Williams
	Der Fliegende Holländer	Wagner	Martyn Brabbins
	Vespers (Salisbury)	Monteverdi	David Halls
1997	Der Freischütz	Weber	Graham Jackson
	St. Matthew Passion (Salisbury)	Bach	David Halls
	Poliuto	Donizetti	Brad Cohen
	Don John of Austria	Nathan	Alex Briger
	Jérusalem	Verdi	Andrew Greenwood
	Concert (Salisbury)	Walton/Delius/Britten	David Halls
1998	Il Guarany	Gomes	Michael Lloyd
	The Dream of Gerontius (Salisbury)	Elgar	David Halls
	Esclarmonde	Massenet	Howard Williams
	Semiramide	Rossini	Grant Llewellyn
	Concert (Salisbury)	Tippett/RVW/Arnold	David Halls
1999	Les Vêpres Siciliennes	Verdi	Brad Cohen
	St. John Passion (Salisbury)	Bach	David Halls
	Rienzi	Wagner	Nicholas Braithwaite
	Edgar	Puccini	Andrew Greenwood
	Grande Messe des Morts (Salisbury)	Berlioz	David Halls

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2000-2009

Year	Opera	Composer	Conductor
2000	Luisa Miller	Verdi	Grant Llewellyn
	Requiem/Leonora No.3/ Choral Fantasia (Salisbury)	Mozart/Beethoven	David Halls
	Requiem (Salisbury)	Verdi	David Halls
	50th Birthday Concert	Various	Various
	Don Giovanni (Veterans party at Pigotts)	Mozart	Colin Davis
	Feuersnot & Drei Hymnen	Strauss	Adrian Brown
	Concert (Salisbury)	Bax/Rachmaninov	David Halls
2001	Hamlet	Thomas	Howard Williams
	B Minor Mass (Salisbury)	Bach	David Halls
	Il Pirata	Bellini	Brad Cohen
	I Lombardi	Verdi	Brad Cohen
	Messiah (Salisbury)	Handel/Mozart	David Halls
2002	The Miserly Knight/ Francesca da Rimini	Rachmaninov	Felix Krieger
	Concert (Salisbury)	Janacek/Poulenc	David Halls
	Anna Bolena	Donizetti	Brad Cohen
	Bar Musical Society 50th Anniversary Concert	Operatic selections	Christopher Fifield
	Lakmé	Delibes	Howard Williams
	St. Nicholas (Salisbury)	Britten	David Halls
2003	La Wally	Catalani	David Lloyd-Jones
	The Kingdom (Salisbury)	Elgar	David Halls
	Lucrezia Borgia	Donizetti	Dominic Wheeler
	Les pêcheurs de perles	Bizet	Felix Krieger
	Cantata 140/Benedictus (Salisbury)	Bach/Blake	David Halls
2004	Ermione	Rossini	Dominic Wheeler
	Andrea Chénier	Giordano	Brad Cohen
	Legends/Stabat Mater (Salisbury)	Dvorak	David Halls
	A Life for the Tsar	Glinka	Alexander Walker
	Magnificat/Requiem (Salisbury)	Rutter/Mozart	David Halls
2005	Le Villi / Cavalleria Rusticana	Puccini / Mascagni	Andrew Greenwood
	St. Matthew Passion (Salisbury)	Bach	David Halls
	Giovanna d'Arco	Verdi	Dominic Wheeler
	Leonore	Beethoven	Howard Williams
	Elijah (Salisbury)	Mendelssohn	David Halls
2006	Attila	Verdi	Andrew Greenwood
	Fantasia & Fugue in C minor/War Requiem (Salisbury)	Elgar/Britten	David Halls
	I puritani	Bellini	Dominic Wheeler
	Idomeneo	Mozart	Felix Krieger
2007	Beatrice di Tenda	Bellini	Brad Cohen
	La jolie fille de Perth	Bizet	Dominic Wheeler
	Maria Stuarda	Donizetti	Tecwyn Evans
	Christmas Oratorio Parts 1-3 (Salisbury)	Bach	David Halls
2008	Macbeth (1847 version)	Verdi	Brad Cohen
	The Dream of Gerontius (Salisbury)	Elgar	David Halls
	Cendrillon	Massenet	Dominic Wheeler
	La favorite	Donizetti	Gianluca Marcianò
	Froissart/Belshazzar's Feast/Gloria (Salisbury)	Elgar/Walton/Poulenc	David Halls
2009	Adriana Lecouvreur	Francesco Cilèa	Andrew Greenwood
	Simon Boccanegra	Verdi	Tecwyn Evans
	Tragic Overture/Te Deum/Requiem (Salisbury)	Brahms/Bruckner/Mozart	David Halls
	Alceste	Gluck	Nicholas Collon
	Te Deum/Mass in C (Salisbury)	Berlioz/Beethoven	David Halls

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2010-2019

Year	Opera	Composer	Conductor
2010	La traviata	Verdi	Gianluca Marcianò
	Mass in B minor (Salisbury)	Bach	David Halls
	Guillaume Tell	Rossini	Dominic Wheeler
	Médée	Cherubini	Andrew Greenwood
	Gloria/Fantasia on Christmas Carols/The Music Makers (Salisbury)	Rutter/V-Williams/Elgar	David Halls
2011	Belisario	Donizetti	Richard Bonynge
	Missa Solemnis (Salisbury)	Beethoven	David Halls
	Manon Lescaut	Puccini	Gianluca Marcianò
	"A Bear of Two Cities" - Lord Mayor's Appeal concert at Guildhall	Verdi/Puccini/Donizetti	Andrew Greenwood
	Béatrice et Bénédict	Berlioz	Nicholas Collon
	Messiah (Salisbury)	Handel	David Halls
2012	La forza del destino	Verdi	Robin Newton
	Maria Padilla	Donizetti	Brad Cohen
	Don Quichotte	Massenet	Renato Balsadonna
	Magnificat in D/Benedictus (Salisbury)	Bach/Blake	David Halls
2013	Die Feen	Wagner	Dominic Wheeler
	Parsifal: Good Friday Music/Mass of the Children/Spring Symphony(Salisbury)	Wagner/Rutter/Britten	David Halls
	Alzira	Verdi	Gianluca Marcianò
	Euryanthe	Weber	Cameron Burns
	My God and King/Grande Messe des Morts (Salisbury)	Willcocks/Berlioz	David Halls
2014	I Capuleti e i Montecchi	Bellini	Robin Newton
	Stiffelio	Verdi	Brad Cohen
	"Powerful Women" - Lord Mayor's Appeal concert at Guildhall	(various composers)	Gianluca Marcianò
	Cristina, regina di Svezia	Foroni	Andrew Greenwood
2015	Le roi de Lahore	Massenet	Renato Balsadonna
	Ernani	Verdi	Robin Newton
	Das Liebesverbot	Wagner	Anthony Negus
2016	Il trovatore	Verdi	Andrew Greenwood
	Requiem (Salisbury)	Verdi	David Halls
	Le comte Ory	Rossini	Toby Purser
	Yellow River Cantata (Orchestra with the Chopsticks Choral Society)	Xian Xinghai	Nicholas Smith
	Prince Igor	Borodin	Jessica Cottis
	Toward the Unknown Region/The Banks of Green Willow/ For the Fallen/Requiem (Salisbury)	V.Williams/Butterworth/ Elgar/Duruflé	David Halls
2017	Samson et Dalila	Saint-Saëns	Matthew Scott Rogers
	The Kingdom (Salisbury)	Elgar	David Halls
	Nabucco	Verdi	Gianluca Marcianò
	Lady Radnor's Suite/A Sea Symphony (Salisbury)	Parry/V.Williams	David Halls
	Christmas Eve	Rimsky-Korsakov	Timothy Burke
2018	Mosè in Egitto	Rossini	Robin Newton
	St. Matthew Passion (Salisbury)	Bach	David Halls
	Thaïs	Massenet	Stephen Higgins
	Norma	Bellini	Dane Lam
	War Requiem	Britten	David Halls
2019	Mefistofele	Boito	Matthew Scott Rogers
	The Demon	Rubinstein	Oliver Zeffman
	Un giorno di regno	Verdi	Tom Seligman

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2020-2029

Year	Opera	Composer	Conductor
2021	Roberto Devereux	Donizetti	Gary Matthewman
2022	Oberto	Verdi	Matthew Scott Rogers
	Andrea Chénier	Giordano	Gianluca Marcianò
	Orfeo ed Euridice	Gluck	Gary Matthewman
	A Sea Symphony/The Wasps (Salisbury)	Vaughan-Williams	David Halls
2023	Oprichnik	Tchaikovsky	James Ham
	Requiem/Academic Festival Ov./ The Beauty of Holiness (Salisbury)	Brahms/Halls	David Halls
	La Clemenza di Tito	Mozart	Paul Wingfield
	Un Ballo in Maschera	Verdi	Anthony Negus
2024	Lakmé	Delibes	Matthew Scott Rogers
	Requiem (Salisbury)	Verdi	David Halls
	I due Foscari	Verdi	Matthew Kofi Waldren
	Cappriccio sinfonico/Messa di Gloria/ Le Villi	Puccini	Peter Robinson

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