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Add MS 60605-60608
- Record Id:
- 036-001991544
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001991529
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000019.0x000106
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60605-60608
- Title:
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Benjamin Britten: ''A Midsummer Night''s Dream'', op. 64
- Scope & Content:
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Opera in three acts. An autograph short score (''sketches'') in one volume, and a partly autograph full score in three volumes (1960), with later additions and annotations.
Text adapted by Britten and Peter Pears from the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.
First performance: Aldeburgh Festival, 11 June 1960, Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh. First broadcast: 24 June 1960 (BBC Home Service), recorded 10 June at the dress rehearsal for the première.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001991529
036-001991544 - Is part of:
- Add MS 60593-60626 : Britten Manuscripts: Musical compositions of Benjamin Britten
Add MS 60605-60608 : Benjamin Britten: ''A Midsummer Night''s Dream'', op. 64 - Contains:
- Add MS 60605 : Benjamin Britten: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 64 (short score)
Add MS 60606 : Benjamin Britten: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 64 (full score, Act I)
Add MS 60607 : Benjamin Britten: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 64 (full score, Act II)
Add MS 60608 : Benjamin Britten: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', op. 64 (full score, Act III)
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Add MS 60605-60608 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001991529[0010]/036-001991544
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 60593-60626
- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
- 4 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1960
- End Date:
- 1978
- Date Range:
- 1960-1978
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Exhibitions:
- Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance, (online), 30 April 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Pears, Peter, Knight, singer, 1910-1986
Shakespeare, William, playwright and poet, 1564-1616,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121032683,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/96994048