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3 unusual facts about English Opera Group


Bruce Boyce

He then went on to other roles, including Il conte in Marriage of Figaro under Erich Kleiber at the Royal Opera House; he sang in the English Opera Group, the London Opera Club and continental Europe.

Five Canticles

Also titled "Abraham and Isaac" and numbered opus 51, this piece was written in 1952 for Peter Pears, Kathleen Ferrier and Britten to perform as a fundraiser for the English Opera Group.

London Boy Singers

Many of its singers took part in other events, including working with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the English Opera Group (including a tour of the USSR in 1964) and many individual operas and other engagements.


Anne Sharp

In March 1947 she became a founder member of Benjamin Britten's English Opera Group, singing Britten roles at Glyndebourne, Sadler's Wells, Lucerne, Scheveningen, Oslo and Copenhagen as well as the company's home base at Aldeburgh.

Ed Evanko

He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and sang with two opera companies in the 1970s - the English Opera Group and the Welsh National Opera.

Thomas Hemsley

In 1960 he created the role of Demetrius in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the English Opera Group at Aldeburgh.


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