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18 - Opera in the marketplace

from Part four - Directions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2011

By
Nicholas Payne
Edited by
Mervyn Cooke
Mervyn Cooke
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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Culture and Society

In 1945, as the Second World War drew to a close, the music publishers Boosey and Hawkes, who had acquired the lease of the Royal Opera House the previous year, issued a manifesto which would have a profound effect on cultural life in Britain:

We hope to re-establish Covent Garden as a centre of opera and ballet worthy of the highest musical traditions. The main purpose will be to ensure for Covent Garden an independent position as an international opera house with sufficient funds at its disposal to enable it to devote itself to a long-term programme, giving to London throughout the year the best in English opera and ballet, together with the best from all over the world. If this ambition can be realized it is felt that it will be a great incentive to artists and composers, since it will offer to them an opportunity for experience in performing and writing of operas on a scale equal to that which has prevailed so long on the Continent but has been lacking so long in our musical life here in London.

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera , pp. 306 - 320
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2005

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