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188 relations: A Ceremony of Carols, Alan Oke, Alan Opie, Aldeburgh, Aldeburgh Festival, Alexander Gibson (conductor), Allan Clayton, Andrew Davis (conductor), Anthony Dean Griffey, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Anthony Tommasini, Antonio Pappano, Apothecary, Baritone, Bass (voice type), Bavarian State Opera, BBC, BBC Proms, Ben Heppner, Benjamin Britten, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Boris Godunov (opera), Britten-Pears Orchestra, Broadway theatre, Bryan Drake, Bryn Terfel, Cambridge University Press, Capstan (nautical), Carlo Rizzi (conductor), Carmen, Chandos Records, Charles Mackerras, Cheltenham Music Festival, Christine Mielitz, Christopher Isherwood, Christopher Purves, Christopher Ventris, City of London Sinfonia, Claire Watson, Colin Davis, Colin Graham, Contralto, Coroner, David Atherton, Deborah Warner, Decca Records, Donald Runnicles, Douglas Watt (critic), ... Expand index (138 more) »
1945 operas
Music commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky or the Koussevitzky Music Foundation
Operas by Benjamin Britten

A Ceremony of Carols

A Ceremony of Carols, Op.

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Alan Oke

Alan Oke is a British tenor.

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Alan Opie

Alan Opie (born 22 March 1945) is a British baritone, primarily known as an opera singer.

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Aldeburgh

Aldeburgh is a coastal town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England, north of the River Alde.

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Aldeburgh Festival

The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music.

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Alexander Gibson (conductor)

Sir Alexander Drummond Gibson (11 February 1926 – 14 January 1995) was a Scottish conductor and opera intendant.

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Allan Clayton

Allan James Clayton (born 1981) is a British tenor singer.

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Andrew Davis (conductor)

Sir Andrew Frank Davis (2 February 1944 – 20 April 2024) was an English conductor.

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Anthony Dean Griffey

Anthony Dean Griffey (born February 12 in High Point, North Carolina) is an American opera tenor.

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Anthony Michaels-Moore

Anthony Michaels-Moore (born 8 April 1957) is an English operatic baritone and the first British winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition (Philadelphia, 1985).

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Anthony Rolfe Johnson

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (5 November 1940 – 21 July 2010) was an English operatic tenor.

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Anthony Tommasini

Anthony Carl Tommasini (born April 14, 1948) is an American music critic and author who specializes in classical music.

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Antonio Pappano

Sir Antonio Pappano (born 30 December 1959) is an English-Italian conductor and pianist.

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Apothecary

Apothecary is an archaic English term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica (medicine) to physicians, surgeons and patients.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types.

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Bass (voice type)

A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.

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Bavarian State Opera

The Bavarian State Opera is a German opera company based in Munich.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Proms

The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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Ben Heppner

Thomas Bernard Heppner (born January 14, 1956) is a renowned Canadian tenor and broadcaster, now retired from singing, who specialized in opera and other classical works for voice.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Norwegian: Bergen filharmoniske orkester) is a Norwegian orchestra based in Bergen.

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Bernard Haitink

Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (4 March 1929 – 21 October 2021) was a Dutch conductor and violinist.

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Boris Godunov (opera)

Boris Godunov (Borís Godunóv) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881).

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Britten-Pears Orchestra

The Britten-Pears Orchestra, formerly The Snape Maltings Training Orchestra, is the youth orchestra of the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme at Snape Maltings, run by the Aldeburgh Festival.

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Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Bryan Drake

Bryan Ernest Hare Drake (7 October 192525 December 2001) was a New Zealand-born baritone who became particularly associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten.

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Bryn Terfel

Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, (born 9 November 1965; known professionally as Bryn Terfel), is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Capstan (nautical)

A capstan is a vertical-axled rotating machine developed for use on sailing ships to multiply the pulling force of seamen when hauling ropes, cables, and hawsers.

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Carlo Rizzi (conductor)

Carlo Rizzi (born 19 July 1960, Milan, Italy) is an Italian conductor.

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Carmen

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet.

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Chandos Records

Chandos Records is a British independent classical music recording company based in Colchester.

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Charles Mackerras

Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (1925 2010) was an Australian conductor.

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Cheltenham Music Festival

The Cheltenham Music Festival is a British music festival, held annually in Cheltenham in the summer months (June, July) since 1945.

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Christine Mielitz

Christine Mielitz (born 23 November 1949) is a German theatre and opera director.

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Christopher Isherwood

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.

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Christopher Purves

Christopher Watt Purves (born 11 October 1961) is an English bass-baritone.

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Christopher Ventris

Christopher Ventris, born 1965, in London, is a British tenor.

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City of London Sinfonia

City of London Sinfonia (CLS) is an English chamber orchestra based in London.

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Claire Watson

Claire Watson (née McLamore) (February 3, 1927 – July 16, 1986) was an American operatic soprano, particularly associated with Mozart and Richard Strauss roles.

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Colin Davis

Sir Colin Rex Davis (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959.

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Colin Graham

Colin Graham OBE (22 September 1931 in Hove, England – 6 April 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri) was a stage director of opera, theatre, and television.

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Contralto

A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.

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Coroner

A coroner is a government or judicial official who is empowered to conduct or order an inquest into the manner or cause of death.

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David Atherton

David Atherton (born 3 January 1944) is an English conductor and founder of the London Sinfonietta.

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Deborah Warner

Deborah Warner (born 12 May 1959) is a British director of theatre and opera, known for her interpretations of the works of Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Benjamin Britten and Henrik Ibsen.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Donald Runnicles

Sir Donald Cameron Runnicles (born 16 November 1954) is a Scottish conductor, known for his Romantic symphonic and operatic repertoire, especially Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Anton Bruckner.

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Douglas Watt (critic)

Douglas Benjamin Watt (January 20, 1914 – September 29, 2009) was an American theater critic who spent nearly six decades covering Broadway theatre — and then Off Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway — for the Daily News and also reported on classical music and opera for The New Yorker.

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E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author.

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Edith Coates

Edith Mary Coates OBE (31 May 1908 – 7 January 1983) was an English operatic mezzo-soprano.

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Edward Gardner (conductor)

Edward Gardner (born 22 November 1974) is an English conductor.

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Elijah Moshinsky

Elijah Moshinsky (8 January 1946 – 14 January 2021) was an Australian opera director, theatre director and television director who worked for the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal National Theatre, and BBC Television, among other organisations.

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Elizabeth Bainbridge

Elizabeth Bainbridge (born 28 March 1930) is a retired English opera singer.

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EMI Classics

EMI Classics was a record label founded by Thorn EMI in 1990 to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogues for internationally distributed classical music releases.

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Emily Magee

Emily Magee (born October 31, 1965) is an American operatic soprano.

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English National Opera

English National Opera (ENO) is a British opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane.

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Eric Crozier

Eric Crozier OBE (14 November 19147 September 1994) was a British theatrical director, opera librettist and producer, long associated with Benjamin Britten.

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Erin Wall

Erin Wall (4 November 1975 – 8 October 2020) was a Canadian-American operatic soprano who had an active international career from 2001 until her death of breast cancer in 2020.

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Felicity Lott

Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, (born 8 May 1947) is an English soprano.

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Felicity Palmer

Dame Felicity Joan Palmer, (born 6 April 1944), is an English mezzo-soprano and music professor.

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Frank Howes

Frank Stewart Howes (2 April 1891 – 28 September 1974) was an English music critic.

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Franz Welser-Möst

Franz Leopold Maria Möst (born 16 August 1960), known professionally as Franz Welser-Möst, is an Austrian conductor.

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Frederick Jagel

Frederick Jagel (June 10, 1897, Brooklyn, New York – July 5, 1982, San Francisco, California) was an American tenor, primarily active at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1930s and 1940s.

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George Crabbe

George Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman.

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George Gershwin

George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres.

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Gino Quilico

Gino Quilico (born April 29, 1955) is an American-Canadian operatic baritone.

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.

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Graham Vick

Sir Graham Vick (30 December 1953 – 17 July 2021) was an English opera director known for his experimental and revisionist stagings of traditional and modern operas.

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Grieg Hall

Grieg Hall (Grieghallen) is a 1,500 seat concert hall located on Edvard Griegs' square in Bergen, Norway.

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Guildhall School of Music and Drama

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music and drama school located in the City of London, England.

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Heather Harper

Heather Mary Harper (8 May 1930 – 22 April 2019) was a Northern Irish operatic soprano.

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Herbert Sandberg (conductor)

Herbert Ludwig Sandberg (26 February 1902 – 7 January 1966) was a Swedish conductor, librettist, and composer of Polish Jewish descent.

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Hymn to St Cecilia

Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27 is a choral piece by Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), a setting of a poem by W. H. Auden written between 1940 and 1942.

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Iain Paterson

Iain Paterson (born 1973) is a Scottish bass-baritone singer who has appeared in opera and concert.

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Illuminations (poetry collection)

Illuminations is an incomplete suite of prose poems by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, first published partially in, a Paris literary review, in May–June 1886.

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Inquest

An inquest is a judicial inquiry in common law jurisdictions, particularly one held to determine the cause of a person's death.

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James Conlon

James Conlon (born March 18, 1950) is an American conductor.

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James Pease

James Pease (9 January 1916, in Indianapolis – 26 April 1967, in New York City)“Pease, James” in Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians, ed.

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Joan Cross

Joan Cross CBE (7 September 1900 – 12 December 1993) was an English soprano, closely associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten.

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John Cranko

John Cyril Cranko (15 August 1927 – 26 June 1973) was a South African ballet dancer and choreographer with the Royal Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet.

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John Daszak

John Daszak is a British operatic tenor, who made his debut with The Royal Opera in 1996 and performed across Europe.

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John Doyle (director)

John Doyle (born 1952) is a Scottish stage director of musicals and plays, as well as operas.

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John Pritchard (conductor)

Sir John Michael Pritchard, (born Stanley Frederick Pritchard, 5 February 1921 – 5 December 1989) was an English conductor.

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John Tyrrell (musicologist)

John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist.

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Jon Vickers

Jonathan Stewart Vickers, (October 29, 1926 – July 10, 2015), known professionally as Jon Vickers, was a Canadian heldentenor.

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Jonas Kaufmann

Jonas Kaufmann (born July 10, 1969) is a German-Austrian tenor opera singer.

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Jonathan Summers

Jonathan Summers (born 2 October 1946) is an Australian operatic baritone who has mainly worked in the United Kingdom.

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Karl Rankl

Karl Rankl (1 October 1898 – 6 September 1968) was a British conductor and composer who was of Austrian birth.

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La bohème

La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadri, tableaux or "images", rather than atti (acts).

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La Monnaie

The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie (italic,; italic; both translating as the "Royal Theatre of the Mint") is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium.

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La Scala

La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Lise Davidsen

Lise Davidsen (born 8 February 1987) is a Norwegian opera singer, known as a lyric dramatic soprano.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London.

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Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

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Mark Elder

Sir Mark Philip Elder (born 2 June 1947) is a British conductor.

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Mark Wigglesworth

Mark Wigglesworth (born 19 July 1964) is a British conductor.

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Methodism

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (In his day, the name was written Модестъ Петровичъ Мусоргскій.|Modest Petrovich Musorgsky|mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj|Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; –) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five".

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Montagu Slater

Charles Montagu Slater (23 September 1902 – 19 December 1956) was an English poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, critic and librettist.

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Music & Letters

Music & Letters is an academic journal published quarterly by Oxford University Press with a focus on musicology.

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Norman Bailey (bass-baritone)

Norman Stanley Bailey (23 March 1933 – 15 September 2021) was a British operatic bass-baritone who appeared in leading roles in major opera venues.

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Opéra Bastille

The Opéra Bastille ("Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Opera North

Opera North is an English opera company based in Leeds.

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Operetta

Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera.

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Opus number

In music, the opus number is the "work number" that is assigned to a musical composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's publication of that work.

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Owen Brannigan

Owen Brannigan OBE (10 March 19089 May 1973) was an English bass, known in opera for buffo roles and in concert for a wide range of solo parts in music ranging from Henry Purcell to Michael Tippett.

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Paris Opera

The Paris Opera is the primary opera and ballet company of France.

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Passacaglia

The passacaglia is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used today by composers.

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Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano)

Patricia Katherine Payne (born 8 March 1942) is an operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto from New Zealand.

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Patricia Racette

Patricia Lynn Racette (born in 1965) is an American operatic soprano.

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Paul Bunyan (operetta)

Paul Bunyan, Op 17, is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden, designed for performance by semi-professional groups. Peter Grimes and Paul Bunyan (operetta) are operas by Benjamin Britten.

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Peter Conrad (academic)

Peter Conrad (born 1948) is an Australian-born academic specialising in English literature, who taught at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.

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Peter Pears

Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (22 June 19103 April 1986) was an English tenor.

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Peter Stein (director)

Peter Stein (born 1 October 1937) is a German theatre and opera director who established himself at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, a company that he brought to the forefront of German theatre.

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Philip Brett

Philip Brett (October 17, 1937 – October 16, 2002) was a British-born American musicologist, musician and conductor.

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Philip Langridge

Philip Gordon Langridge (16 December 1939 – 5 March 2010)Millington (7 March 2010) was an English tenor, considered to be among the foremost exponents of English opera and oratorio.

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Philips

Koninklijke Philips N.V., commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891.

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Phyllida Lloyd

Phyllida Christian Lloyd, (born 17 June 1957) is an English film and theatre director and producer.

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Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. Peter Grimes and Porgy and Bess are English-language operas.

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Rachel Willis-Sørensen

Rachel Willis-Sørensen (born 1984) is an American operatic soprano.

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Recitative

Recitative (also known by its Italian name recitativo is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms and delivery of ordinary speech. Recitative does not repeat lines as formally composed songs do. It resembles sung ordinary speech more than a formal musical composition.

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Reginald Goodall

Sir Reginald Goodall (13 July 1901 – 5 May 1990) was an English conductor and singing coach noted for his performances of the operas of Richard Wagner and for conducting the premieres of several operas by Benjamin Britten.

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Richard Cassilly

Richard Cassilly (December 14, 1927 – January 30, 1998) was an American operatic tenor who had a major international opera career between 1954–90.

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Richard Farnes

Richard Farnes (born 1964) is a British conductor, and was Music Director of Opera North from 2004 to 2016.

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Richard Hickox

Richard Sidney Hickox (5 March 1948 – 23 November 2008) was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music.

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Richard Jones (director)

Richard Jones CBE (born 7 June 1953) is a British theatre and opera director.

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Richard Lewis (tenor)

Richard Lewis CBE (10 May 191413 November 1990) was an English tenor of Welsh parentage.

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Robert Tear

Robert Tear (pronounced to rhyme with "beer"), CBE (8 March 1939 – 29 March 2011) was a Welsh tenor singer, teacher and conductor.

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Robin Ticciati

Robin Ticciati (born 16 April 1983, in London) is a British conductor of Italian ancestry.

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Roderick Jones (baritone)

Roderick Jones (2 June 1910 – 16 September 1992) was a Welsh opera singer who sang leading baritone roles with the Sadlers Wells Opera Company and the Welsh National Opera during the late 1940s and 1950s.

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Roderick Williams

Roderick Gregory Coleman Williams OBE (born 1965) is a British baritone and composer.

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Ronald Duncan

Ronald Frederick Henry Duncan (6 August 1914 – 3 June 1982) was an English writer, poet and playwright of German descent, now best known for his poem The Horse and for preparing the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia, first performed in 1946.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Royal Swedish Opera

Royal Swedish Opera (Kungliga Operan) is an opera and ballet company based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Rupert Christiansen

Rupert Christiansen (born 1954) is an English writer, journalist and critic.

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Sadler's Wells Theatre

Sadler's Wells Theatre is a London performing arts venue, located in Rosebery Avenue, Islington.

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Scottish Opera

Scottish Opera is the national opera company of Scotland, and one of the five national performing arts companies of Scotland.

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Serge Koussevitzky

Serge Koussevitzky (born Sergey Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky;Koussevitzky's original Russian forename is usually transliterated into English as either "Sergei" or "Sergey"; however, he himself adopted the French spelling "Serge", using it in his signature. (See. Retrieved 5 November 2009.) His surname can be transliterated variously as "Koussevitzky", "Koussevitsky", "Kussevitzky", "Kusevitsky", or, into Polish, as "Kusewicki"; however, he himself chose to use "Koussevitzky".

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Set Svanholm

Set Svanholm (2 September 1904 – 4 October 1964) was a Swedish operatic tenor, considered the leading Tristan and Siegfried of the first decade following World War II.

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Simone Young

Simone Margaret Young AM (born 2 March 1961) is an Australian conductor and academic teacher.

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Sinfonia da Requiem

Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20, for orchestra is a sinfonia written by Benjamin Britten in 1940 at the age of 26.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Stanley Sadie

Stanley John Sadie (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.

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Stefan Herheim

Stefan Herheim (born Oslo, 13 March 1970), is a Norwegian opera director, based in Germany.

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Steuart Bedford

Steuart John Rudolf Bedford (31 July 1939 – 15 February 2021) was an English orchestral and opera conductor and pianist.

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Stuart Skelton

Stuart Skelton (born 1968 in Sydney) is an Australian operatic heldentenor.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Susan Bickley

Susan Bickley is a British mezzo-soprano singer who performs in opera, Baroque and contemporary classical music.

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Susan Gritton

Susan Gritton (born 31 August 1965) is an English operatic soprano.

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Tanglewood

Tanglewood is a music venue and festival in the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts.

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Tanglewood Music Festival

The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Stockbridge and Lenox in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts.

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Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Rome Opera House) is an opera house in Rome, Italy.

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Teatro Real

The Teatro Real (Royal Opera of Madrid) is an opera house in Madrid, Spain.

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Tempo (journal)

Tempo is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that specialises in music of the 20th century and contemporary music.

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Tenor

A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.

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The Borough (poem)

The Borough is a collection of poems by George Crabbe published in 1810.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Listener (magazine)

The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in January 1929 which ceased publication in 1991.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Theater Basel

Theater Basel is the municipal theatre of the city of Basel, Switzerland, which is home to the city's opera and ballet companies.

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Thomas Allen (baritone)

Sir Thomas Boaz Allen (born 10 September 1944) is an English operatic baritone.

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Thomas Beecham

Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH (29 April 18798 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras.

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Trevor Nunn

Sir Trevor Robert Nunn (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Tyrone Guthrie

Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 – 15 May 1971) was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at his family's ancestral home, Annaghmakerrig, near Newbliss in County Monaghan, Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grimes

Also known as Ellen Orford, Four Sea Interludes, Grimes, Peter, Peter Grimes (opera), Sea Interludes.

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