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1940-44 SADLER'S WELLS OPERA Season
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1944-45 SADLER'S WELLS OPERA Season
1944-45: COSI FAN TUTTE
1944 (29+30 Dec): COSI FAN TUTTE in English (Princes Theatre)
Joan Cross, Margaret Ritchie, Peter Pears, John Hargreaves, Rose Hill, Owen Brannigan; c:Lawrence Collingwood, chorus master:Reginald Goodall, dir:Sasha Machov [4pp; 5x8; with Air Raid Warning; how many of these are left?] (£4) SOLD

1945 (10 Jan): IL TABARRO and GIANNI SCHICCHI in English (Princes Theatre)
Elisabeth Abercrombie, Arthur Servent, Tom Williams, Valetta Jacopi; c:Lawrence Collingwood, dir:Powell Lloyd; Edmond Donlevy, Linda Parker, Ivan Dixon, Olwen Price, Owen Brannigan; c:Reginald Goodall, dir:Powell Lloyd [4pp; 5x8; with Air Raid Warning; VG] (£5) SOLD

1945 (12 & 15 June): PETER GRIMES - Britten (Sadler's Wells)
Peter Pears, Joan Cross, Edith Coates, Blanche Turner, Minnia Bowers, Roderick Jones, Valetta Iacopi, Owen Brannigan, Edmund Donlevy, Morgan Jones, Tom Culbert, Frank Vaughan, Leonard Thompson, Olwen Price, George Gorst, Rhys Williams; cond:Reginald Goodall, dir:Eric Crozier [8pp, 5x3.75; cast, chorus list, credits, synopsis etc.; World Premiere was 7 June 1945; VG] (£5) SOLD

1945 (23 June): COSI FAN TUTTE in English (Sadler's Wells)
Peter Pears (for Tom Culbert), Elisabeth Abercrombie, Edmund Donlevy, Roderick Jones, Margaret Ritchie, Minnia Bower; cond:Lawrance Collingwood, dir:Sasha Machov [8pp, 5x3.75; cast, chorus list, credits, synopsis etc.; VG] (£4) SOLD

1945-46 SADLER'S WELLS OPERA Season
1946: March THEATRE WORLD
1946 (Mch): THEATRE WORLD Magazine
Extensive Sadler's Wells Opera feature, including PETER GRIMES (commentary and 10 production photos, w.Peter Pears and Joan Cross), THE BARTERED BRIDE (4 photos w.Arthur Servent and Rose Hill), MADAM BUTTERFLY (5 photos w.Victoria Sladen and Roderick Jones), and notes on leading members of Sadler's Wells Opera (15 photos); also contains review of the re-opening of Covent Garden Opera House (20 Feb 1946), London Theatre news, photos of GOLDEN EAGLE (Bax), SONG OF NORWAY, THE RIVALS (with Edith Evans), Prokofiev's CINDERELLA premiere at the Bolshoi, Festival of English Drama (Arts Theatre), portrait of Wendy Hiller, articles on Broadway, Ivor Novello etc. [40pp; 5.9x8.75; staples rusty, centre pages loose] (£5) SOLD
1945-46: PETER GRIMES
1946 (16 April): PETER GRIMES (Sadler's Wells)
Peter Pears, Joan Cross, Roderick Jones; c:Reginald Goodall, dir:Eric Crozier [16pp; 5x3.6; small red] (£4) SOLD

1946-47 SADLER'S WELLS OPERA Season

1946 (7 Dec): RIGOLETTO in English (Sadler's Wells)
Tom Culbert, Roderick Jones, Vera Terry, Valetta Iacopi, Sydney Jack, Kenneth MacMillan (dancer); cond:Michael Mudie, dir:Sumner Austin [16pp, 5x3.75; cast, chorus list, credits, synopsis etc.; lightly rumpled, else VG] (£4) SOLD

1947-48 SADLER'S WELLS OPERA Season

1948 (15 Jan): FAUST (Sadler's Wells)
James Johnston, Howell Glynne, Marion Lowe, Roderick Jones, Anna Pollack, Olwen Price; c:James Robertson, dir:Dennis Arundell [12pp, 5x3.75; cast, chorus list, credits, Producer's Note etc.; date written on cover, else VG] (£4) SOLD

1948-49 SADLER'S WELLS OPERA Season
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1949-50 SADLER'S WELLS OPERA Season
1949-50: HUGH THE DROVER
1950 (17 May): HUGH THE DROVER -Vaughan Williams, and Summer Interlude Ballet (Sadler's Wells)
James Johnston, Joyce Gartside, Roderick Jones, Denis Dowling, Olwen Price, George James, c:Robertson, dir:Powell Lloyd [16pp; 5x3.6; small red; title written on cover] (£4) SOLD

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