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1975 (4+5 Oct): THE CORONATION OF POPPEA - Claudio Monteverdi, English translation by Norman Platt (Christ's Hospital Arts Centre, Horsham)
Kent Opera: Gloria Jennings, Jessica Cash, Janet Hughes, Kenneth Bowen, Edmund Bohan, Ian Thompson, Sarah Walker (as Poppea), Anne Pashley (as Nero), Enid Hartle, Laura Sarti (as Ottavia), John Tomlinson (as Seneca), Elizabeth Tippett, Nigel Beavan, Roger Bryson; c:Roger Norrington, dir:Norman Platt [4pp, 8.5x11; cast list, synopsis of scenes, biographies, credits etc.; w.6pp insert containing programme note by Roger Norrington, synopsis, character notes etc.; VG] £3

1977 (10 Nov): IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS - Gluck; in English (Congress Theatre, Eastbourne)
Kent Opera: Eiddwen Harrhy, Anthony Roden, Jonathan Summers, Robert Bateman, Sally Bradshaw; c:Roger Norrington, p:Norman Platt [16pp, 5.6x8.3; cast, synopsis, notes, biographies, credits; VG] £3

1977 (23+26 Nov): EUGENE ONEGIN - Tchaikovsky; in English (Theatre Royal, Bath)
Kent Opera: Gloria Jennings, Jill Gomez (as Tatiana), Eirian James, Enid Hartle, Peter Knapp (as Onegin), Brian Burrows (as Lensky), Richard Robson, Graham Allum, John Morgan, Bruce Kershaw, Charles Metcalfe, Patrick McCarthy; c:Jonathan Hinden / Roger Norrington, p:Jonathan Miller [16pp, 5.8x8.3; cast, notes, company lists, credits; VG] £3

1984 (8-10 Nov): THE SERAGLIO, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO and KING PRIAM - Michael Tippett (Orchard Theatre, Dartford)
Kent Opera: Maldwyn Davies, Harry Coghill, John Graham-Hall, Andrew Shore, Angela Denning, Delith Brook, Alan Watt, Meryl Drower, Enid Hartle, Eirian James, Alan Oke, Christopher Gillett, Lynne Dawson, Kevin John, Marilyn Rees, Fiona Cameron, Rodney Macann, Janet Price, Sarah Walker, Omar Ebrahim, Howard Haskin, Anne Mason, Neil Jenkins, John Hancorn, Enid Hartle, Richard Suart, Mark Curtis, Kevin John, Philip Creasy, Ian Platt, Margaret Medlyn, Nana Antwi-Nyanin; c:Ivan Fischer/Graham Jenkins (Seraglio, Figaro), Roger Norrington (Priam), p:Norman Platt (Seraglio), Nicholas Hytner (Figaro, Priam) [28pp, 5.8x8.25; cast lists, 3 production photos, company biographies, orchestra and chorus lists, 7-pages of informative articles about the operas, credits; VG] £3

1986 (Spring): LA TRAVIATA in English (Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury)
Kent Opera: Louisa Kennedy (as Violetta Valery), Patrick Power (as Alfredo Germont), Peter Knapp (as Giorgio Germont), Jacqueline Evill, Alexandra Mercer, Christopher Gillett, Gwion Thomas, Ian Platt, John Milne, Philip Creasy, Michael Bundy; c:Ivan Fischer, p:Jonathan Miller / Adrian Slack [56pp, 5.25x9; cast, orchestra and chorus lists, credits, illustrated articles, biographies; ticket (19 March) stapled inside, else VG] £4