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1949 (Nov 22-25): LET'S MAKE AN OPERA! - Benjamin Britten (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith)
English Opera Group: Glady Parr/Anne Wood, Norman Lumsden/John Highcock, Anne Sharp, Pamela Woolmore/Dorothy Nash, Andrew Gold/Max Worthley, John Moules/Alan Woolston, Brian Cole/Brian Dobbin, Bruce Hines/Michael Nicholls, Monica Garrod/Jean Galton, Ralph Canham/Clive Wyatt, Mavis Gardiner/Shirley Eaton; c:Norman de Mar, Trevor Harvey, dir:Basil Coleman and Stuart Burge [6pp, 5x7.4 triple-fold; cast list, synopsis of scenes, orchestra list, casting schedule, credits etc.; w.4-page insert of Audience Song; VG] £4

1950 (Jan): LET'S MAKE AN OPERA! - Benjamin Britten (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith)
English Opera Group: Gladys Parr/Ann Wood, Norman Lumsden/John Highcock, Anne Sharp, Pamela Woolmore/Dorothy Nash, Andrew Gold/Max Worthley, Alan Woolston, Paul Medland, Michael Nicholls, Jean Galton, Clive Wyatt, Shirley Eaton; c:Norman del Mar, Trevor Harvey, dir:Basil Coleman and Stuart Burge [6pp, 5x7.25 triple-fold; cast list, synopsis of scenes, orchestra list, casting schedule, credits etc.; VG] £3

1951 (2 May): ALBERT HERRING - Benjamin Britten (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith)
English Opera Group: Glady Parr, Tatiana Preston, Bruce Boyce, Roy Ashton, Norman Lumsden, Victoria Sladen (as Lady Billows), Doreen Orme, Monica Garrod, Richard Tovell, Denis Dowling, Peter Pears (as Albert), Nancy Evans (as Nancy), Catherine Lawson; c:Norman De Mar, dir:Frederick Ashton [6pp, 5x7.4 triple-fold; cast list, synopsis of scenes, synopsis, orchestra list, credits etc.; VG] £4

1951 (8 May): COMBATTIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA - Monteverdi and DIDO AND AENEAS - Henry Purcell, Benjamin Britten (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith)
English Opera Group: Bruce Boyce, John Hauxwell, Tutte Lemkow, Pamela Woolmore (as Clorinda/Belinda), Sara Luzita, Joan Cross (as Dido), Peter Pears (as Aeneas), Flora Neilsen, Gladys Whitred, Mary Grimmett, Vivette Hendriks, Max Worthley, Cecilia Cardozo, Lily Kettlewell, Doreen Orme, Esme Sanford, Pauline Tinsley, Terence Conoley, Andrew Gold, Scott Herbert, Glyn Jenkins, George Neighbour, George Prangnell, Frederick Westcott; c:Benjamin Britten, dir:Joan Cross [6pp, 5x7.4 triple-fold; cast lists, synopses, orchestra list, credits etc.; w.Dido and Aeneas programme note insert by Britten; VG] £4

1956 (26 Sep-6 Oct): THE TURN OF THE SCREW - Benjamin Britten, VENUS AND ADONIS - John Blow/Imogen Holst, SAVITRI - Gustav Holst, FACADE - William Walton, RUTH - Lennox Berkeley (Scala Theatre)
English Opera Group: April Cantelo, Olive Dyer, Una Hale, Heather Harper, Arda Mandikian, Lotte Medak, Anna Pollak, Emerentia Scheepers, Jenifer Vyvyan, Maria Zeri, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley, David Hemmings, Gerald English, David Hemmings, Michael Hartnett, Dame Edith Sitwell, Dame Sybil Thorndike; c:Benjamin Britten, Charles Mackerras, dir:Basil Coleman, Peter Pears, Peter Potter, Clifford Williams [12pp, 9x11.5; cast lists, synopses and programme notes, orchestra list, schedule of performances, credits etc.; vertical bend, else VG] £4

1960 (11-15 July): A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Benjamin Britten (Holland Festival)
Alfred Deller, Jennifer Vyvyan, Nicholas Chagrin, Michael Bauer, Kevin Platts, Robert McCutcheon, Barry Ferguson, Thomas Bevan, Thomas Smyth, Roger Stalman, Johanna Peters, George Maran, Thomas Hemsley, Marjorie Thomas, Joan Carlyle, Forbes Robinson, Norman Lumsden, Peter Pears, David Kelly, Edward Byles, Joseph Ward, John Perry, Jeremy Cullum; c:Benjamin Britten/George Malcolm, producer:John Cranko, stage director:John Copley [20pp, 6.2x12.75; cast list, 6 excellent production photos, 16 photos of the English Opera Group's previous visits to the Holland Festival (1947-1960), synopsis and programme notes (by The Earl of Harewood and Imogen Holst, in Dutch and English) etc.; the opera had premiered on 11 June 1960 at the Aldeburgh Festival, and this was the Continental Premiere; VG] £5

1972 (5+7 Oct): A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Benjamin Britten (Sadler's Wells)
English Opera Group: James Bowman (as Oberon), Jennifer Vyvyan (as Tytania), Julian Littman, Trevor Cole, Mark Wisson, Paul Faulkner, William Neal, Stephen Grover, Philip Gunstone, Stephen Murray, David Ury, Neville Williams, Alan Opie, Maureen Morelle, Alexandra Browning, Owen Brannigan (as Bottom), Norman Lumsden, Bernard Dickerson (as Flute), Brian Holmes, Graham Allum, Peter Leeming, Bryan Drake, Carolyn Maja, Paul Wade, Verity Ann Bates, Patricia Blans, Alice Hynd, Maureen Keetch, Stephen Adams, Michael Bauer, George Gordon, Stuart Harling; c:Steuart Bedford, dir:Colin Graham [20pp, 5.25x9; cast list, synopsis, programme notes, production photos, orchestra list, credits etc.; VG] £4

1974 (3+9+11 Oct): ALBERT HERRING - Benjamin Britten (Sadler's Wells)
English Opera Group: Enid Hartle/Anna Cooper, Teresa Cahill/Norma Burrowes, John Barrow, Thomas Edmonds, Michael Follis, Pauline Tinsley/Janice Chapman (as Lady Billows), Judith Rees, Janice Hooper-Roe, Paul Whitrow/Mark Wissen, Thomas Allen, Anthony Rolfe Johnson/Keith Jones (as Albert), Kathleen Smales, Anne Collins/Noreen Berry; c:David Shaw, dir:David William [20pp, 5.25x9; cast list, synopsis of scenes, programme note, 4 production photos, orchestra list, credits etc.; date on cover, else VG] £3