2-25 Jun 1967
Leaflet giving the programme of performances for the twentieth Festival, the first to be held at the newly completed Maltings which was opened by Her Majesty the Queen on 2nd June. The inaugural concert was performed in the presence of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and included the first performance of Britten's Overture: The Building of the House and music by Delius, Holst and Handel.
The English Opera Group presented first performances of two new one-act operas: Castaway by Berkeley and The Bear by Walton, a new production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and performances of Britten's The Burning Fiery Furnace. Other works by Britten that were performed that year included A Ceremony of Carols, Piano Concerto in D, Canticle No. 1 and Mazurka and Rondo for two pianos.
Imogen Holst devised a series of four half-hour programmes on the music of Byrd and a series of five half-hour programmes on English Church Music of the seventeenth and twentieth centuries which was presented by the BBC Transcription Service. There were also performances by the Vienna Boys Choir, the Covent Garden Opera Chorus, the Amadeus Quartet and the Cambridge University Musical Society.
Other events included showings in association with the British Film Institute in Aldeburgh Cinema of Katerina Ismailova, the film of the opera by Shostakovich, De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and A Night at the Opera by the Marx Brothers. The National Puppet Theatre from Budapest and the Barrow Poets also appeared.
Details are provided for the Exhibitions held that year, the Festival Services and for membership of the Festival Club.
Notification is given of the dates for the Bach week-end at Long Melford.
Printed inside are seating plans and on the reverse, a miniature map of Aldeburgh with performance venues marked.
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