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LevelItem

ReferencePHPN/2/1/29

Artist / Photographer

Austria, Maria

Title

Production photograph of The Beggar's opera at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge

DateMay 1948

DescriptionPhotograph of Captain Macheath (Peter Pears) and Polly (Nancy Evans) in Act I at Peachum's house, where she has to tell him he must leave because her parents intend to betray him, but he claims 'My hand, my heart, my dear, is so riveted to thine, that I cannot unloose my hold.'
Photographer: Maria Austria

Extent1 photograph

Physical DescriptionBlack and white 17 x 17.5 cm

CopyrightMaria Austria Instituut

Copies3

Publication NoteBenjamin Britten: Pictures from a Life, compiled by Mitchell and Evans, Faber, 1978, image no. 222
Peter Pears: A Tribute on his 75th Birthday, edited by Marion Thorpe, Faber, 1985 page 115, no. 7

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