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ReferencePHPN/10

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Production photographs of Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream

Date1960-1980

DescriptionPhotographs from a number of productions staged in the U.K. and abroad, as follows;
The original English Opera Group production for the Aldeburgh Festival at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, June 1960 and at the Holland Festival, July 1960
Photographs of the production by Komische Oper in Berlin (July 1961), the Czech Company Divadlo F. X. Saldy in Liberec (May 1962) a Japanese company at the Metropolitan Opera House, Tokyo (May-June 1962)
A second English Opera Group production for the Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk, June 1967, revived at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, August 1969 and taken on tour to Sadler's Wells Theatre, London (October 1969), the Flanders Festival and Snape Maltings Concert Hall (August 1970) Snape Maltings Concert Hall (August and September 1971), San Francisco (October 1971), Snape Maltings Concert Hall (September 1972), Sadler's Wells, the Grand Theatre, Leeds and the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton (November 1972)
Photographs of the English Music Theatre Company production for the Aldeburgh Festival (June 1980)
There are also pre-production photographs of the set model for an unidentified production by Colin Graham.

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