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ReferencePHPN/9

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Production photographs of Britten's opera The Little Sweep (Let's make an opera)

Date1949-1981

DescriptionPhotographs of a number of productions staged in the UK and abroad, as follows:
Photographs of the set model, costume designs, audience and scenes from the first production at the Aldeburgh Festival, by the English Opera Group, 1949; also of subsequent English Opera Group productions at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 1950 and 1951; the Taw and Torridge Festival, 1953; the Aldeburgh Festival 1956 and the revival in Aldeburgh in 1965.
Photographs of productions by other companies at St Michael's Tenbury, 1951; the Company of Four at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, 1951; the County Grammar School, Penzance, and Farnham Grammar School, 1952; in Luxembourg, 1952; the State of Israel, 1953; and Cheltenham College Junior School, 1957.
Photographs of productions from the 1950s in Camberley, the Royal Grammar School High Wycombe, and in Munich, Oslo, Denmark, Holland and Durban.
Photographs of later productions in York, 1969 and Riga, 1981.

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