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Glyndebourne Festival programme book 1956.
Added title page title: Glyndebourne Festival Opera Mozart Bicentenary Festival
[England] : Glyndebourne Productions Ltd., [1956]
100 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Title from p. 3; additional title page title: Glyndebourne Festival Opera: Mozart Bicentenary Festival, 14 June - 14 August 1956: programme book.
Includes synopses of: Idomeneo, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, and Die Zauberflöte.
Cover design by Oliver Messel, adapting silhouette of Mozart at 14 from one in the Mozarteum, Salzburg.
Publisher's paper wrappers.
Partial contents: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) / Sacheverell Sitwell -- Mozart's visit to England / Ronald Crichton -- Mozart and Glyndebourne / James Strachey -- Die Zauberflöte : the music of the spheres / Geoffrey Sharp -- The first performance of Die Zauberflöte / Christopher Raeburn -- Mozart and his first audiences / Hans Juda -- Operatic London 1833 / Harry R. Beard -- Mozart as a source of inspiration / Carl Ebert ... [et al.] -- The operas of Mozart performed by Glyndebourne 1934-1955.
Opera programs.
Music festivals England.
Mozart Bicentenary Festival (1956 : Glyndebourne, England)
England.
B51550