''Our Man in Havana'' is an opera in three acts composed by

Malcolm Williamson Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, (21 November 19312 March 2003) was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death. Biography Williamson was born in Sydney in 1931; his father was an A ...

to a libretto by Sidney Gilliat based on

Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquir ...

's 1958 novel '' Our Man in Havana''. Williamson's first full-scale opera, it was premiered on 2 July 1963 at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. Its first performance in

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was in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz) in May 1966, with Renate Härtel, Eva Lehoczky, Elisabeth Fuchs, Peter Slawow, Konrad Rupf, Egon Schulz, Gerhard Scherfling, Manfred Drescher, conducted by Gerhard Rolf Bauer. The opera was presented at the Csokonai Theatre in

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, Hungary, in May 1967, with Jozsef Csongor, Gyorgy Trefas, Magda Marsay, Janos Gazso, Gyorgy Siklos, Zsuzsa Marczaly, Kriszta Tibay, Miklos Albert, Jozsef Toth, Mihaly Viragos, conducted by . After years of neglect it was revived in 2016 by Lyric Opera of Melbourne at the

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theatre.

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Operas by Malcolm Williamson 1963 operas English-language operas Operas based on novels Operas set in the Caribbean Operas {{English-opera-stub