The English Opera Group was a small company of British musicians formed in 1947 by the composer Benjamin Britten (along with John Piper, Eric Crozier...
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English National Opera (ENO) is a British opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane. It is one of the two principal...
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provides funds to Opera North, the Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera, and English National Opera. Between 2012 and 2015, these four opera companies along...
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dedicated to James Haldane Lawrie, who would go on to chair the English Opera Group. The opera was made into a film version in 1953, and starred Laurence Olivier...
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Peter Pears (category 20th-century British male opera singers)
December 1945, going on to found what was to become the English Opera Group. Britten's next opera, The Rape of Lucretia, was presented at the first post-war...
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based on Edith Sitwell's 1933 book, The English Eccentrics. It was commissioned by the English Opera Group. The opera requires the cast to make many quick...
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The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 novella...
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origins of opera in late 16th century Italy, a central repertoire has developed, shepherded by major opera composers. The earliest major opera composer...
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English Touring Opera (ETO) is an opera company in the United Kingdom founded in 1979 under the name Opera 80 by the then-existing Arts Council of Great...
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Sadler's Wells Theatre (redirect from New Sadler's Wells Opera)
to 21 London seasons by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; from the 1950s to the 1970s the English Opera Group, founded by Benjamin Britten, had its London...
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The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe and a libretto by...
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founded in 1953. The English composer Benjamin Britten went so far as to found his own chamber opera orchestra, the English Opera Group. On the other hand...
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Albert Herring (category English-language operas)
intending it like the earlier opera for performance by the English Opera Group. The opera premiered on 20 June 1947 at Glyndebourne, conducted by the...
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Benjamin Britten wrote works in this category in the 1940s when the English Opera Group needed works that could easily be taken on tour and performed in...
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The Little Prince, subtitled A Magical Opera, is an opera in two acts by Rachel Portman to an English libretto by Nicholas Wright, based on the 1943 book...
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The Rape of Lucretia (redirect from The Rape of Lucretia (opera))
37) is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, written for Kathleen Ferrier, who performed the title role. Ronald Duncan based his English libretto on...
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events. In March 1950, she created an opera-inspired fancy dress ball in aid of Britten's English Opera Group, featuring Frederick Ashton and Moira Shearer...
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Edinburgh International Festival (category Opera in Scotland)
Glyndebourne Opera, Covent Garden Opera, Belgrade Opera, the English Opera Group, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Budapest Opera and Ballet, National Theatre, Prague...
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Oberon, and Gillian Keith Tytania. English National Opera's production of 2011, directed by Christopher Alden, set the opera in a mid-20th-century school,...
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From 1951 to 1957, Basil Douglas was the General Manager of the English Opera Group. He was invited to take the position by Benjamin Britten. Later Douglas...
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Noye's Fludde (category English-language operas)
began detailed planning for the opera in August 1957, while sailing to Canada for a tour with the English Opera Group. He told Colin Graham, at that time...
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A Night at the Opera is the seventh studio album by the German power metal band Blind Guardian, released in 2002. It is named after the 1975 Queen album...
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The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is...
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John Shirley-Quirk (category 20th-century British male opera singers)
Shirley-Quirk CBE (28 August 1931 – 7 April 2014) was an English bass-baritone. A member of the English Opera Group from 1964 to 1976, he gave premiere performances...
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In 1948, Wood was one of the prime movers in the creation of the English Opera Group, and was its general manager until 1951, working alongside Britten...
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Palace Theatre, London (redirect from The Royal English Opera House)
The theatre opened as the Royal English Opera House in January 1891 with a lavish production of Arthur Sullivan's opera Ivanhoe. Although this ran for...
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operas comprise 22 musical dramas in a variety of genres. They range from the small-scale, derivative works of his youth to the full-fledged operas of...
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A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 28 November 1975 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and...
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largest opera building in the city; today it is the second largest opera house in Budapest and in Hungary. Touring groups had performed operas in the city...
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Michael Crawford (category Use British English from March 2012)
composer. In 1958, Crawford was hired by the English Opera Group to create the role of Jaffet in another Britten opera, Noye's Fludde, based on the story of...
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