Performance Program "Aida" at Covent Garden June 1953 Bayreuth Programs was the first western guest

was the first western guest artist to dance with the Bolshoi Ballet in 1957 and with the Peking Ballet and Shanghai Company

Thomas Kakuska (viola)

signed by star soprano Jessye Norman and 10 other met opera singers

with a couple of bars from "Les Biches"

Performance Program "Aida" at Covent Garden June 1953 Bayreuth Programs was the first western guestMaria Callas, Giulietta Simionato & Joan Sutherland in Verdi's Aida with John Barbirolli conducting. Complete program book with program insert. Includes photos of Callas as well as of other performers, sets etc from the entire 1953 "Coronation Season" of ballet and opera productions. Size is 7" x 9. 5", 62 pages.