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ReferenceCRS/2/75

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Programme for A Festival Season of Operas by Benjamin Britten at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London

Date1-19 May 1951

DescriptionProgramme for Albert Herring, The Rape of Lucretia, Let's Make an Opera, Dido and Aeneas and Il Combattimento do Tancreid e Clorinda. Soloists included Pears (tenor), Joan Cross (soprano). Britten conducted some of the performances, with Norman del Mar and Josef Krips as the alternate conductors. The programme contains information about prices, and photographs of the conductors and some of the soloists (including Britten and Pears).

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