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ROH table

Royal Opera House chief executive	Opera company music director	Director of Opera	Notes
1946 to 1970 David Webster	1946 to 1951 Karl Rankl	none	none
	1955 to 1958 Rafael Kubelík		none
	none	1959 to 1960 Lord Harewood	none
		1960 to 1962 Bernard Keeffe	none
	1961 to 1971 Georg Solti		none
		1962 to 1971 Joan Ingpen	none
1970 to 1988 John Tooley			none
	1971 to 1986 Colin Davis	none	none
		1973 to 1981 Helga Schmidt	none
		1983 to 1987 Peter Katona	none
	1987 to 2002 Bernard Haitink	1987 to 1993 Paul Findlay	none
1988 to 1996 Jeremy Isaacs			none
		1993 to 1998 Nicholas Payne	none
January to May 1997 Genista McIntosh			none
September 1997 to March 1998 Mary Allen			none
September 1998 to June 2000 Michael Kaiser		none	none
none		2000 to 2011 Elaine Padmore	none
May 2001 to present Tony Hall			none
	2002 to present Antonio Pappano		none
		2011 to present Kasper Holten	none

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Royal Opera House chief executive	Opera company music director	Director of Opera
1946 to 1970: David Webster	1946 to 1951: Karl Rankl	none
	1955 to 1958: Rafael Kubelík
	none	1959 to 1960: Lord Harewood
		1960 to 1962: Bernard Keeffe
	1961 to 1971: Georg Solti
		1962 to 1971: Joan Ingpen
1970 to 1988: John Tooley
	1971 to 1986: Colin Davis	none
		1973 to 1981: Helga Schmidt
		1983 to 1987: Peter Katona
	1987 to 2002: Bernard Haitink	1987 to 1993: Paul Findlay
1988 to 1996: Jeremy Isaacs
		1993 to 1998: Nicholas Payne
January to May 1997: Genista McIntosh
September 1997 to March 1998: Mary Allen
September 1998 to June 2000: Michael Kaiser		none
none		2000 to 2011: Elaine Padmore
May 2001 to present: Tony Hall
	2002 to present: Antonio Pappano
		2011 to present: Kasper Holten

Larkin refs

uncited books

• Booth, James (2005) Philip Larkin: The Poet's Plight, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-1834-1
• Whalen, Terry (1986) Philip Larkin and English Poetry, University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-0232-4

Rambles

Lead

• "Issued in 1844, it is her last" - mixing tenses?
• "The sites that Rambles describes are similar to those of other travel books of the time" - doesn't seem to mesh quite, though can't identify any error
• "tradition of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Lady Morgan" - there's a tiny ambiguity here (are we talking about 2 ppl or 3?) "tradition of Lady Morgan and Mary Wollstonecraft, her mother" would avoid this
• "Shelley's aim was to arouse sympathy in England for the Italian revolutionaries, such as Gatteschi" - lose the "the"?
• In that paragraph mixture of tenses: "challenged", "aim was ", "She rails", "She describes" - just checking that's ok?
• "Shelley's political commentary on Italy was specifically singled out for praise, particularly since it was written by a woman. However, for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Shelley was known only" - feel the need for an extra word or two somewhere, eg "..was generally known.

Risorgimento

• "Prior to the nineteenth century, Italy was divided" would prefer something like "From xxx until the 19th..." or "By the start of the 19th....": currently suggest that Italy had never previously been anything other than "duchies and city-states"
• "Giuseppe Mazzini, a Carbonari who was exiled from Italy" - just checking this plural-looking word is correct for a single person?
• "These nationalist revolutionaries, ironically with foreign support" - I can see the irony, but actually its pretty typical for other countries to interfere like this (eg French in US), so the word feels a bit naive to me

1840

• Put the pre-1840 info into the pluperfect tense eg "Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley had lived in Italy from 1818 to 1823" maybe? [I do mean "pluperfect" don't I? I remembering from Latin lessons when I was nine]. Especially as you go into it later in paragraph "Mary Shelley had always wanted"
• "since none of them spoke German, the group was forced to remain together" makes it sound like they actively wanted to get away from one another, when presumably you mean that they had no opportunity to etc etc?
• "reminisced about how she and Percy had almost rented a villa with Lord Byron" - where? there?
• "in Italy] I might live – as once I lived—hoping—loving—aspiring enjoying" inconsistency of dashes?

184–24

• "She also spent time sitting at Percy Bysshe Shelley’s grave in Rome" something about this bothers me, in the context, but can't work out why. I think I'm wanting to know if it was a series of regular visits, or one long one
• "He was young—not yet 30—and had participated in a failed Carbonari rebellion against Austria in 1830–31; as a result, he was in exile" would prefer something like "He was young - not yet 30 - and in exile, following his participation in ...." to get rid of slight ambiguity ("He was young....as a result, he was in exile")
• "Moskal points out that "the strength of [Shelley’s] devotion overturned her previous resolve not to publish again" - can you "point out" an opinion?
• I know that you're writing in American English but "she wrote Moxon" really jars English eyes. Would "she wrote to Moxon" be possible in American English?

Description of text Part 1

• "Shelley becomes ill in Germany and again pauses at Baden-Baden to recover her health" - the "again" is confusing me
• "After recovering her health and her spirits, the group proceeds..." sounds like the group recovered her health

History of the travel narrative

• "Over the course of the eighteenth century, the Grand Tour became increasingly popular; travel to the Continent for Britain’s elite was not only educational but also nationalistic. All aristocratic gentlemen took similar trips and visited similar sites, often devoted to developing an appreciation of Britain from abroad" I feel that the structure of these two sentences could be rejigged so that the point I think you're making about the "nationalistic" element is made more straightforwardly. Even just replacing the semi-colon with a fullstop and the fullstop with a colon would help my progress

• "During the Napoleonic Wars, the Continent was closed to British travellers" Entirely closed? Largely closed? So closed as to make any attempt pointless? A qualifier would stop me wondering

• "and the Grand Tour came under increasing criticism, particularly from radicals such as Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin, who scorned its aristocratic connections" I feel a better word that connections might be available - "aristocratic connections" are those I imagine a person, not a thing, having

• "That is, they claimed to have experienced the true culture of an area and their reactions to it were specifically personal, as opposed to the generic guidebooks, in which the response is specifically impersonal" feels odd to be comparing people ("they" the writers) with books ("generic guidebooks")

Rambles as a travel narrative

• "Although Shelley even dedicated Rambles to Rogers, her preface acknowledged Lady Morgan" I found this a little chewy

• "In order to make her politics more palatable to her audience, however, Shelley often uses the analysis of literature and art to make her points" better without the "the"?

• "Shelley's travel narrative...is a part of the Romantic emphasis on the individual" is there a better way of phrasing this?

Travel narratives by women writers

• "Mary Shelley violated the mid-nineteenth century taboo on women discussing politics" - is "on" the right word? "against"? "about"?

• "Wollstonecraft is described as asking "men’s questions" when she is curious about her surroundings and both Lady Morgan’s and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s travel narratives received hostile reviews because they discussed political issues. Both Shelley and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft" - Two "both"s in quick succession

• "Also like her mother...Shelley emphasised her role as a mother in the text" seems a bit clumsy.

Italian politics

• "In writing about the Italian situation, Shelley was also advocating" - you've been using the present tense ("Shelley’s stated aim in Rambles is to raise awareness" "On a general level, she articulates" etc) up to now in this paragraph (mostly!)

National character

• "It was, in fact, how political events affected the people that Shelley was most interested in describing in Rambles." - I had to read this sentence three times before I got the right end of the stick

• "she did so again" - again, are you going to be consistent with your use of the present tense?

• "Shelley's trips to Italy were a way for her to revisit memories of her deceased husband, Percy Shelley, and the children they had buried there. Moskal argues that Shelley needed to "expiate" her survivor guilt.[102] Shelley writes about this process in Rambles" - which process? I'm a little unsure what exactly you're referring back to?

• "using the trope of a pilgrimage" - this means nothing to me, I'm afraid. I'm, like, totally "huh?"

Playing with tables

All repertoire in one table, as on 20.07.10

Season	Opera	Composer	Principal cast	Conductor	Director	Designer
1978–79	Samson et Dalila	Saint-Saëns	Gilbert Py (Samson), Katherine Pring (Dalila), John Rawnsley (High Priest)	David Lloyd-Jones	Patrick Libby	John Stoddart
1978–79	Les mamelles de Tirésias	Poulenc	Joy Roberts (Thérèse), Stuart Harling (The Husband)	Clive Timms	John Copley	Robin Don
1978–79	Dido and Aeneas	Purcell	Ann Murray (Dido), Sandra Dugdale (Belinda), Ian Caddy (Aeneas)	Clive Timms	Ian Watt‑Smith	Alexander McPherson
1978–79	La bohème	Puccini	Robert Ferguson (Rodolfo), Eilene Hannan (Mimi), John Rawnsley (Marcello), Margaret Haggart (Musetta)	David Lloyd‑Jones/ Clive Timms	Patrick Libby	Margaret Harris
1978–79	Orpheus in the Underworld	Offenbach	Peter Jeffes (Orpheus), Sandra Dugdale (Euridice), Eric Shilling/Thomas Lawlor (Jupiter), Bonaventura Bottone (John Styx)	Clive Timms	Wendy Toye	Malcolm Pride
1978–79	The Magic Flute	Mozart	Robert Ferguson (Tamino), Eiddwen Harrhy (Pamina), Stuart Harling (Papageno), Don Garrard/John Tranter (Sarastro), Margaret Haggart/Iris Saunders (Queen of the Night)	David Lloyd-Jones	Anthony Besch	John Stoddart
1978–79	Hänsel und Gretel	Humperdinck	Claire Powell (Hansel), Elizabeth Gale (Gretel), Ann Howard (Witch)	David Lloyd-Jones	Patrick Libby	Adam Pollock
1978–79	Die Fledermaus	J Strauss	Nigel Douglas (Eisenstein), Sheila Armstrong (Rosalinda), Joy Roberts (Adele), Ramon Remedios (Alfredo)	David Parry	Patrick Libby	Jane Kingshill
1978–79	Peter Grimes	Britten	Robert Ferguson (Grimes), Ava June (Ellen Orford), Geoffrey Chard (Balstrode)	David Lloyd-Jones	Colin Graham	Alix Stone
1978–79	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart	Paul Hudson (Figaro), Joy Roberts (Susanna), Stuart Harling (Count), Eiddwen Harrhy (Countess), Marie McLaughlin (Cherubino)	David Lloyd-Jones/ John Pryce-Jones	Patrick Libby	Robin Don
1978–79	La traviata	Verdi	Lois McDonall (Violetta), Ryland Davies (Alfredo), Christian du Plessis (Germont)	Clive Timms	John Copley	David Walker
1979–80	Rigoletto	Verdi	John Rawnsley/Michael Lewis (Rigoletto), Michael Renier/Robert Ferguson (Duke), Joy Roberts/Margaret Neville (Gilda)	John Pryce-Jones/ Clive Timms	Patrick Libby	Maria Björnson
1979–80	Tosca	Puccini	Elizabeth Vaughan (Tosca), Kenneth Collins (Cavaradossi), Geoffrey Chard (Scarpia)	David Lloyd-Jones	Steven Pimlott	Margaret Harris
1979–80	The Flying Dutchman	Wagner	Peter Glossop (The Dutchman), Arlene Saunders (Senta), Paul Hudson (Daland), Robert Ferguson (Erik)	David Lloyd-Jones	Basil Coleman	Robin Don
1979–80	The Merry Widow	Lehár	Elizabeth Harwood (Hanna Glawari), David Hillman (Danilo), Bente Marcussen (Valencienne), Adrian Martin (Camille), Thomas Lawlor (Baron Zeta)	David Lloyd-Jones/ John Pryce-Jones	Wendy Toye	Bob Ringwood
1979–80	Hänsel und Gretel	Humperdinck	Fiona Kimm (Hansel), Kate Flowers (Gretel), Ann Howard (Witch)	David Parry	Revival of 1978–9 production
1979–80	Carmen	Bizet	Gillian Knight/Ann Howard (Carmen), Robert Ferguson (Don José), Michael Lewis (Escamillo), Joy Roberts (Micaela)	Clive Timms	John Copley	Stefanos Lazaridis
1979–80	Der Rosenkavalier	R Strauss	Lois McDonall (The Marschallin), Eiddwen Harrhy (Octavian), Laureen Livingstone (Sophie), Dennis Wicks (Baron Ochs)	David Lloyd-Jones	John Copley	David Walker
1979–80	The Mines of Sulphur	Bennett	Fiona Kimm (Rosalind), Robert Ferguson (Bocconnion, Eric Garrett (Sherrin), Sally Burgess (Jenny), John Fryatt (Trim)	Clive Timms	Colin Graham	Alix Stone
1979–80	Nabucco	Verdi	Ludmilla Andrew (Abigaille), Camillo Meghor (Nabucco), John Tranter (Zaccaria)	Elgar Howarth	Steven Pimlott	Stefanos Lazaridis
1979–80	A Village Romeo and Juliet	Delius	Adrian Martin (Sali), Laureen Livingstone (Vrenchen), Stuart Harling (The Dark Fiddler)	David Lloyd-Jones	Patrick Libby	John Fraser
1979–80	Le Comte Ory	Rossini	Graham Clark (Count Ory), Eiddwen Harrhy (Countess Adèle), Della Jones (Isolier), Russell Smythe (Raimbaud), Paul Hudson (Ory's Tutor)	David Lloyd-Jones	Anthony Besch	Peter Rice
1980–81	Jenůfa	Janáček	Lorna Haywood (Jenůfa), Margaret Kingsley (Kostelnička), Robert Ferguson (Laca), Philip Mills (Števa)	David Lloyd-Jones	David Pountney	Maria Björnson
1980–81	L'elisir d'amore	Donizetti	Lillian Watson (Adina), Ryland Davies (Nemorino), Forbes Robinson (Dulcamara), Richard Jackson (Belcore)	Clive Timms	Michael Geliot	Michael Beaven
1980–81	La traviata	Verdi	Elizabeth Vaughan (Violetta), Franco Bonanome (Alfredo), Michael Lewis (Germont)	Gabrielle Bellini	Revival of 1978–9 production
1980–81	The Merry Widow	Lehár	Elizabeth Robson (Hanna Glawari), Christopher Booth-Jones (Danilo), Eirian James (Valencienne), Arthur Davies (Camille), Thomas Lawlor (Baron Zeta)	David Lloyd-Jones	Revival of 1979–80 production
1980–81	The Tales of Hoffmann	Offenbach	David Hillman (Hoffmann), Joan Carden (Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta, Stella), Norman Bailey (Lindorf, Coppelius, Dr Miracle, Dapertutto)	David Lloyd-Jones	Anthony Besch	John Stoddart
1980–81	La bohème	Puccini	Robert Ferguson (Rodolfo), Sally Burgess (Mimi), Terence Sharpe (Marcello), Bente Marcussen (Musetta)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1978–9 production
1980–81	Oedipus rex	Stravinsky	Robert Ferguson (Oedipus), Josephine Veasey (Jocasta), Hugh-Nigel Sheehan (Creon), John Tranter (Tiresias)	David Lloyd-Jones	Patrick Libby	Stefanos Lazaridis
1980–81	Les mamelles de Tirésias	Poulenc	Kate Flowers (Thérèse), Stuart Harling (The Husband)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1978–9 production
1980–81	Tosca	Puccini	Elizabeth Vaughan (Tosca), Kenneth Collins (Cavaradossi), Geoffrey Chard (Scarpia)	David Lloyd-Jones	Revival of 1979–80 production
1980–81	The Magic Flute	Mozart	Adrian Martin (Tamino), Helen Walker (Pamina), Michael Lewis (Papageno), John Tranter (Sarastro), Margaret Haggart (Queen of the Night)	David Lloyd-Jones	Revival of 1978–9 production
1980–81	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Tom McDonnell (Don Giovanni), Elizabeth Robson (Donna Anna), Felicity Palmer (Donna Elvira), Michael Rippon (Leporello), Robin Leggate (Don Ottavio)	David Lloyd-Jones	David Pountney	Maria Björnson
1980–81	The Barber of Seville	Rossini	Michael Lewis (Figaro), Della Jones (Rosina), John Brecknock (Almaviva), Derek Hammond-Stroud (Dr Bartolo)	John Pryce-Jones	Patrick Libby	Frances Tempest/ Steve Addison
1980–81	Der Freischütz	Weber	Robert Ferguson (Max), Sally Burgess/Bente Marcussen (Agathe), Malcolm Rivers (Caspar), Sandra Dugdale (Aennchen)	Clive Timms	Steven Pimlott	John Fraser
1981–82	Carmen	Bizet	Gillian Knight (Carmen), Robert Ferguson (Don José), Michael Lewis (Escamillo), Barbara Walker (Micaela)	John Pryce-Jones	Revival of 1978-9 production
1981–82	Macbeth	Verdi	John Rawnsley (Macbeth), Elizabeth Vaughan (Lady Macbeth), Anthony Roden (Macduff)	David Lloyd-Jones	Michael Geliot	John Gunter/ Sally Gardner
1981–82	Hänsel und Gretel	Humperdinck	Patricia Parker (Hansel), Laureen Livingstone (Gretel), Patricia Payne (Witch)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1978-9 production
1981–82	Orpheus in the Underworld	Offenbach	John Winfield (Orpheus), Patricia Cope (Euridice), Thomas Lawlor (Jupiter)	John Pryce-Jones /Roy Laughlin	Revival of 1978-9 production
1981–82	Rigoletto	Verdi	John Rawnsley/Terence Sharpe (Rigoletto), Robert Ferguson (Duke), Helen Field/Hilary Jackson (Gilda)	Robin Stapleton	Revival of 1979-80 production
1981–82	The Bartered Bride	Smetana	Marie Slorach (Mařenka), Arthur Davies (Jeník), Eric Garrett/Thomas Lawlor (Kecal), Justin Lavender (Vašek)	David Lloyd-Jones /Clive Timms	Steven Pimlott	Stefano Lazaridis
1981–82	A Midsummer Night’s Dream	Britten	Kevin Smith (Oberon), Nan Christie (Tytania), Stephen Rhys-Williams (Bottom), Ian Caley (Lysander), Barbara Walker (Helena), Fiona Kimm (Hermia), Christopher Booth-Jones (Demetrius)	Elgar Howarth	Ian Watt-Smith	Alexander McPherson
1981–82	Manon Lescaut	Puccini	Arlene Saunders (Manon), Benito Maresca (Des Grieux), Christian du Plessis (Lescaut)	David Lloyd-Jones	Christopher Renshaw	Bruno Santini
1981–82	Nabucco	Verdi	Pauline Tinsley (Abigaille), Norman Bailey (Nabucco), John Tranter (Zaccaria)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1979-80 production
1981–82	Così fan tutte	Mozart	Eiddwen Harrhy (Fiordiligi), Patricia Parker (Dorabella), Robin Leggate (Ferrando), Robert Dean (Guglielmo), Kate Flowers (Despina), Rodney Macann (Don Alfonso)	David Lloyd-Jones	Graham Vick	Russell Craig
1981–82	Werther	Massenet	John Brecknock (Werther), Carol Wyatt (Charlotte), Lesley Garrett (Sophie)	Clive Timms	Steven Pimlott	Maria Björnson
1981–82	The Flying Dutchman	Wagner		Friedrich Pleyer	Revival of 1978-9 production
1982–83	Prince Igor	Borodin	Malcolm Donnelly (Igor), Margaret Curphey (Yaroslavna), Tom McDonnell (Galitsky), Roderick Kennedy (Khan Konchak)	David Lloyd-Jones	Steven Pimlott	Stefano Lazaridis
1982–83	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart	William Shimell (Figaro), Lesley Garrett (Susanna), Stephen Roberts (Count), Margaret Neville (Countess), Elise Ross (Cherubino)	Richard Hickox	Revival of 1978-9 production
1982–83	Samson et Dalila	Saint-Saëns	Gilbert Py (Samson), Ann Howard (Dalila), Jonathan Summers (High Priest)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1978-9 production
1982–83	Madama Butterfly	Puccini	Elizabeth Vaughan (Butterfly), Kristian Johannsson (Pinkerton), Terence Sharpe (Sharpless), Maureen Morelle (Suzuki)	David Lloyd-Jones	John Copley	Robin Don
1982–83	La Cenerentola	Rossini	Della Jones (Cenerentola), John Brecknock/Richard Morton (Don Ramiro), ??? (Don Magnifico), Stuart Harling (Dandini), Rodney Macann (Alidoro)	Guido Amojne-Marsan /Roy Laughlin	Colin Graham	Roger Butlin
1982–83	The Tales of Hoffmann	Offenbach	David Hillman (Hoffmann), Suzanne Murphy (Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta, Stella), Raimund Herincx (Lindorf, Coppelius, Dr Miracle, Dapertutto)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1980-1 production
1982–83	La bohème	Puccini	William Livingston (Rodolfo), Anne Williams-King (Mimi), William Shimell (Marcello), Maria Moll (Musetta)	David Lloyd-Jones	Revival of 1978-9 production
1982–83	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Christian du Plessis (Don Giovanni), Suzanne Murphy (Donna Anna), Eiddwen Harrhy (Donna Elvira), Roderick Earle (Leporello), ??? (Don Ottavio)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1980-1 production
1982–83	Káťa Kabanová	Janáček	Marie Slorach (Katya), Keith Mills (Boris), Bonaventura Bottone (Kudryash), Barbara Walker (Varvara), Judith Pierce (Kabanicha)	David Lloyd-Jones	Graham Vick	Stefano Lazaridis
1982–83	Béatrice et Bénédict	Berlioz	Claire Powell (Beatrice), John Brecknock (Benedict), Eilene Hannan (Hero)	David Lloyd-Jones	David Alden	David Fielding
1982–83	L'elisir d'amore	Donizetti	Gillian Sullivan (Adina), Alexander Oliver/Bonaventura Bottone (Nemorino), Michael Rippon (Dulcamara), Gordon Sandison (Belcore)	John Pryce-Jones	Revival of 1980-1 production
1982–83	Der Freischütz	Weber	John Mitchinson (Max), Margaret Curphey (Agathe), Malcolm Rivers (Caspar), Kate Flowers (Aennchen)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1980-1 production
1983–84	Die Fledermaus	J Strauss	Jonny Blanc (Eisenstein), Penelope Mackay (Rosalinda), Lynda Russell (Adele), Adrian Martin/Bonaventura Bottone (Alfredo)	Clive Timms	Hans Hollman	John Gunter/ Sue Blane
1983–84	Così fan tutte	Mozart	Marie Slorach (Fiordiligi), Cynthia Buchan (Dorabella), John Graham-Hall (Ferrando), Robert Dean/Geoffrey Dolton (Guglielmo), Elizabeth Gale (Despina), Rodney Macann (Don Alfonso)	John Pryce-Jones	Revival of 1981-2 production
1983–84	Rebecca (world premiere)	Josephs	Gillian Sullivan (The second Mrs de Winter), Peter Knapp (Maxim de Winter), Ann Howard (Mrs Danvers)	David Lloyd-Jones	Colin Graham	Stefano Lazaridis
1983–84	Il trovatore	Verdi	Natalia Rom (Leonora), Eduardo Alvares (Manrico), Cynthia Buchan (Azucena), James Dietsch (Count di Luna)	Yan Pascal Tortelier	Andrei Şerban	Michael Yeargan
1983–84	Eugene Onegin	Tchaikovsky	Eilene Hannan (Tatyana), Jonathan Summers (Onegin), Robin Leggate (Lensky), Fiona Kimm (Olga)	David Lloyd-Jones	Graham Vick	Roger Butlin
1983–84	The Cunning Little Vixen	Janáček	Helen Field (Vixen), Willard White (Forester), Gordon Christie (Fox), Neil Jenkins (Schoolmaster), Thomas Lawlor (Priest)	Wyn Davies	David Pountney	Maria Björnson
1983–84	Orfeo ed Euridice	Gluck	Felicity Palmer (Orfeo), Patricia Rozario (Euridice), Cathryn Pope (Amor)	David Lloyd-Jones	Philip Prowse	Philip Prowse
1983–84	Tosca	Puccini	Valerie Popova (Tosca), Kristian Johannsson (Cavaradossi), Brent Ellis (Scarpia)	John Pryce-Jones	Revival of 1979-80 production
1983–84	The Bartered Bride	Smetana	Eiddwen Harrhy (Mařenka), Lawrence Dale (Jeník), Thomas Lawlor (Kecal), Mark Curtis (Vašek)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1981-2 production
1983–84	Salome	R Strauss	Penelope Daner (Salome), Philip Joll (Jokanaan), Nigel Douglas (Herod), Della Jones (Herodias)	David Lloyd-Jones	Joachim Herz	Rudolf Heinrich
1983–84	A Village Romeo and Juliet	Delius	Peter Jeffes (Sali), Anne Williams-King (Vrenchen), David Wilson-Johnson (The Dark Fiddler)	Nicholas Cleobury	Robert Carsen	Russell Craig/ John Fraser
1983–84	Madama Butterfly	Puccini	Mani Mekler (Butterfly), Franco Farina (Pinkerton), Rodney Macann (Sharpless), Anne Mason (Suzuki)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1982-3 production
1983–84	The Threepenny Opera	Weill	Peter Savidge (Macheath), Beverley Mills (Polly), Eiddwen Harrhy (Jenny Diver), Mark Lufton (Peachum), Clare Moll (Mrs Peachum)	John Pryce-Jones	Philip Prowse	Philip Prowse
1984–85	Cavalleria rusticana	Mascagni	Phyllis Cannan/Jane Eaglen (Santuzza), Frederick Donaldson (Turiddu)	David Lloyd-Jones /Clive Timms	Steven Pimlott	Raimonda Gaetani
1984–85	Pagliacci	Leoncavallo	Angelo Marengi (Canio), Kate Flowers (Nedda), Florian Cerny (Tonio)	David Lloyd-Jones /Clive Timms	Steven Pimlott	Raimonda Gaetani
1984–85	Nabucco	Verdi	Elizabeth Vaughan (Abigaille), Jonathan Summers (Nabucco), Giovanni Gusmeroli (Zaccaria)	Elgar Howarth/ John Pryce-Jones	Revival of 1979-80 production
1984–85	Jonny spielt auf (British premiere)	Krenek	Jonathan Sprague (Jonny), Kenneth Woollam (Max), Penelope Mackay (Anita), Gillian Sullivan (Anita)	David Lloyd-Jones	Anthony Besch	John Stoddart
1984–85	The Magic Flute	Mozart	Lawrence Dale (Tamino), Jane Leslie Mackenzie (Pamina), Alan Watt (Papageno), Geoffrey Moses (Sarastro), Evelyn Nicholson (Queen of the Night)	Peter Hirsch	Graham Vick	Russell Craig
1984–85	The Gondoliers	Sullivan	Beverley Mills/Louise Winter (Tessa), Gordon Christie (Marco), Peter Savidge (Giuseppe), Gillian Sullivan (Gianetta)	David Lloyd-Jones /Anthony Shelley	Christopher Renshaw	Tim Goodchild
1984–85	The Threepenny Opera	Weill	Peter Savidge (Macheath), Beverley Mills (Polly), Eiddwen Harrhy (Jenny Diver), Mark Lufton (Peachum), Clare Moll (Mrs Peachum)	John Pryce-Jones	Revival of 1983-4 production
1984–85	La traviata	Verdi	Helen Field/Natalia Rom (Violetta), Adrian Martin (Alfredo), Jonathan Summers (Germont)	Roderick Brydon	François Rochaix	Jean-Claude Maret
1984–85	Tamerlano	Handel	Felicity Palmer (Tamburlaine), Richard Morton (Bajazet), Sally Burgess (Andronicus), Eiddwen Harrhy (Asteria), Wendy Vercoe (Irene)	Clive Timms	Philip Prowse	Philip Prowse
1984–85	Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg	Wagner	Michael Burt (Sachs), Denes Striny (Walther), Nicholas Folwell (Beckmesser) Marie Slorach (Eva), Bonaventura Bottone (David), John Tranter (Pogner)	David Lloyd-Jones /Clive Timms	Ladislav Stros	Vladímir Nyvlt/ Josef Jelínek
1984–85	Il trovatore	Verdi	Wilhelmenia Fernandez (Leonora), Gordon Greer (Manrico}, Patricia Payne (Azucena), Keith Latham (Count di Luna)	John Pryce-Jones	Revival of 1983-4 production
1984–85	Werther	Massenet	Tibère Raffalli (Werther), Cynthia Buchan (Charlotte), Patricia Rozario (Sophie)	Yan Pascal Tortelier	Revival of 1981-2 production
1985–86	I puritani	Bellini	Dennis O'Neill (Arturo), Suzanne Murphy (Elvira), Donald Maxwell (Riccardo), Roderick Earle (Giorgio)	Clive Timms	Andrei Şerban	Michael Yeargan
1985–86	The Magic Flute	Mozart	Richard Morton (Tamino), Jane Leslie Mackenzie (Pamina), Henry Newman (Papageno), Stephen Richardson (Sarastro), Evelyn Nicholson (Queen of the Night)	Martin Fischer-Dieskau	Revival of 1984-5 production
1985–86	The Midsummer Marriage	Tippett	Rita Cullis (Jenifer), Donald Stephenson (Mark), Peter Jeffes (Jack), Patricia O’Neill (Bella), Philip Joll (King Fisher), Penelope Walker (Sosostris)	David Lloyd-Jones	Tim Albery	Tom Cairns/ Antony McDonald
1985–86	La fanciulla del West	Puccini	Mary Jane Johnson (Minnie), John Treleaven (Dick Johnson), Malcolm Donnelly (Jack Rance)	David Lloyd-Jones	David Pountney	Günther Schneider -Siemssen
1985–86	The Golden Cockerel	Rimsky- Korsakov	Andrew Shore (King Dodon), Elizabeth Gale (Queen of Shemakha), Justin Lavender (Astrologer), Bronwen Mills (Cockerel)	Alexander Rahbari	David Pountney	Maria Björnson/ Sue Blane
1985–86	La traviata	Verdi	Natalia Rom/Helen Field (Violetta), Adrian Martin (Alfredo), Donald Maxwell (Germont)	John Pryce-Jones	Revival of 1984-5 production
1985–86	The Mikado	Sullivan	Harry Nicoll (Nanki-Poo), Kate Flowers (Yum-Yum), Alan Oke (Ko-Ko), Thomas Lawlor (Pooh-Bah), John Tranter (The Mikado)	Clive Timms	Christopher Renshaw	Tim Goodchild
1985–86	Aida	Verdi	Wilhelminia Fernandez/Valerie Popova (Aida), Frederick Donaldson/Seppo Ruohonen (Radames), Sally Burgess/Linda Finnie (Amneris), Keith Latham (Amonasro)	David Lloyd-Jones John Pryce-Jones	Philip Prowse	Philip Prowse
1985–86	Intermezzo	R Strauss	Peter Savidge (Robert Storch), Rita Cullis (Christine), Harry Nicoll (Baron Lummer)	Stephen Barlow	John Cox	Martin Battersby
1985–86	The Rake's Progress	Stravinsky	Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tom Rakewell), William Shimmell (Nick Shadow), Jane Leslie Mackenzie (Ann Trulove)	Roderick Brydon	François Rochaix	Jean-Claude Maret
1985–86	Faust	Gounod	Jerome Pruett (Faust), Valerie Masterson (Marguerite), John Tomlinson (Méphistophélès), Keith Latham (Valentin)	Clive Timms	Ian Judge	John Gunter/ Deidre Clancy
1985–86	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Peter Savidge (Don Giovanni), Christine Teare (Donna Anna), Kathryn Harries (Donna Elvira), Nicholas Folwell (Leporello), Glenn Winslade (Don Ottavio)	David Lloyd-Jones	Tim Albery	Maria Björnson/ Antony McDonald
1986–87	Les Troyens (part 1: The Capture of Troy)	Berlioz	Kristine Ciesinski (Cassandra), Ronald Hamilton (Aeneas), Richard Salter (Chorebus)	David Lloyd-Jones	Tim Albery	Antony McDonald /Tom Cairns
1986–87	Madama Butterfly	Puccini	Natalia Rom (Butterfly), Arthur Davies/Frederick Donaldson (Pinkerton), Keith Latham (Sharpless), Claire Primrose (Suzuki)	Rico Saccani	Sally Day	Robin Don
1986–87	The Barber of Seville	Rossini	Peter Savidge (Figaro), Beverley Mills (Rosina), Harry Nicoll (Almaviva), David Wilson-Johnson (Dr Bartolo)	Clive Timms	Giles Havergal	Russell Craig
1986–87	La bohème	Puccini	Adrian Martin (Rodolfo), Eirian Davies/Lynne Dawson (Mimi), William Shimmell/Anthony Michaels-Moore (Marcello), Anna Steiger/Roisin McGibbon (Musetta)	Elgar Howarth/ Clive Timms	David Freeman	David Roger
1986–87	Norma	Bellini	Monica Pick-Hieronimi (Norma), Eiddwen Harrhy (Adalgisa), Frederick Donaldson (Pollione)	Clive Timms	Andrei Şerban	Michael Yeargan
1986–87	Oedipus rex	Stravinsky	Anthony Roden (Oedipus), Della Jones (Jocasta), Keith Latham (Creon), John Tranter (Tiresias)	David Lloyd-Jones	Revival of 1980-1 production
1986–87	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	Mozart	Sally Wolf (Konstanze), Lawrence Dale/Jerome Pruett (Belmonte), Tom Haenan (Osmin), Elizabeth Gale/Bronwen Mills (Blonde), Bonaventura Bottone (Pedrillo)	Tomasz Bugaj	Graham Vick	Kevin Rupnik
1986–87	La traviata	Verdi	Sheri Greenawald (Violetta), Jerome Pruett/Patrick Power, Keith Latham (Germont)	John Pryce-Jones	Revival of 1984-5 production
1986–87	Daphne (British premiere)	R Strauss	Helen Field (Daphne), William Lewis (Apollo), Peter Jeffes (Leukippos)	David Lloyd-Jones	Philip Prowse	Philip Prowse
1987–88	Les Troyens (part 2: The Trojans at Carthage)	Berlioz	Sally Burgess (Dido), William Lewis (Aeneas), Patricia Bardon (Anna)	David Lloyd-Jones	Tim Albery	Tom Cairns/ Antony McDonald
1987–88	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart	Robert Hayward (Figaro), Helen Field (Susanna), Peter Savidge (Count), Iva-Maria Turri (Countess), Beverley Mills (Cherubino)	Stephen Barlow	Peter Gill	Alison Chitty
1987–88	Macbeth	Verdi	Brent Ellis/Keith Latham (Macbeth), Josephine Barstow (Lady Macbeth)	John Pryce-Jones	Ian Judge	John Gunter/ Deidre Clancy
1987–88	Carmen	Bizet	Cynthia Buchan (Carmen), Dennis O’Neill/Edmund Barham/Arthur Davies (Don José), Anthony Michaels-Moore/Donald Maxwell (Escamillo), Marie Slorach (Micaela)	Alexander Rahbari /Clive Timms /Anthony Jenner	Richard Jones	Nigel Lowery
1987–88	Rebecca	Josephs	Anne Williams-King (The second Mrs de Winter), Peter Knapp (Maxim de Winter), Ann Howard (Mrs Danvers)	David Lloyd-Jones	Revival of 1983-4 production
1987–88	The Merry Widow	Lehár	Kathryn Harries (Hanna Glawari), Peter Savidge (Danilo), Andrea Bolton (Valencienne), Paul Nilon (Camille), Thomas Lawlor (Baron Zeta)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1979-80 production
1987–88	Káťa Kabanová	Janáček	Eiddwen Harrhy (Katya), Edmund Barham (Boris), Paul Nilon (Kudryash), Louise Winter (Varvara), Catherine Wilson (Kabanicha)	Elgar Howarth	Revival of 1982-3 production
1987–88	Tosca	Puccini	Mary Jane Johnson/Valerie Popova (Tosca), John Treleaven (Cavaradossi), Sergei Leiferkus (Scarpia)	Clive Timms	Ian Judge	Gerard Howland/ Ann Curtis
1987–88	Fidelio	Beethoven	Janice Cairns (Leonore), Jeffrey Lawton (Florestan), Donald Maxwell (Pizarro), Mark Munkittrick (Rocco)	David Lloyd-Jones /Roy Laughlin	Michael McCarthy	Peter Mumford
1988–89	The Love for Three Oranges	Prokofiev	Peter Jeffes (The Prince), Paul Harrhy (Truffaldino), Andrew Shore/Robert Poulton (Leander), Pauline Tinsley (Fata Morgana)	David Lloyd-Jones	Richard Jones	The Brothers Quay /Sue Blane
1988–89	Lucia di Lammermoor	Donizetti	Valerie Masterson (Lucia), Jorge Pita/Ingus Peterson (Edgardo), Keith Latham (Enrico)	Clive Timms	David Gann	Ultz/ Stephen Rodwell
1988–89	La bohème	Puccini	Adrian Martin (Rodolfo), Joan Rodgers (Mimi), Peter Savidge (Marcello), Marie Angel (Musetta)	Diego Masson	Revival of 1986-7 production
1988–89	Les pêcheurs de perles	Bizet	Arthur Davies/Adrian Martin (Nadir), Sergei Leiferkus/Keith Latham (Zurga), Anne Dawson (Leila)	David Lloyd-Jones	Philip Prowse/ Sally Day	Philip Prowse
1988–89	Aida	Verdi	Janice Cairns (Aida), John Treleaven (Radames), Sally Burgess (Amneris), Keith Latham (Amonasro)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1985-6 production
1988–89	The Flying Dutchman	Wagner	Donald Maxwell (The Dutchman), Kristine Ciesinski (Senta), David Gwynne (Daland), Jeffrey Lawton (Erik)	Jacek Kaspszyk	Stephen Medcalf	Lez Brotherston
1988–89	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart	Anthony Michaels-Moore (Figaro), Judith Howarth (Susanna), Peter Savidge/Geoffrey Dolton (Count), Ida-Maria Turri (Countess), Linda Kitchen (Cherubino)	Elgar Howarth	Revival of 1987-8 production
1988–89	Manon	Massenet	Helen Field (Manon), Patrick Power (Des Grieux), Lescaut (Geoffrey Dolton)	Clive Timms	Richard Jones	Richard Hudson
1988–89	Boris Godunov	Mussorgsky	John Tomlinson (Boris), Edmund Barham (Grigory), Kim Begley (Shuisky), Sean Rea (Pimen)	David Lloyd-Jones	Ian Judge	Russell Craig/ Deidre Clancy
1989–90	Peter Grimes	Britten	John Treleaven (Peter Grimes), Marie Slorach (Ellen Orford), Malcolm Donnelly (Balstrode)	David Lloyd-Jones /Roy Laughlin	Ronald Eyre	Mark Thompson
1989–90	Tosca	Puccini	Mary Jane Johnson/Edith Davis/Janice Cairns (Tosca), Edmund Barham (Cavaradossi), Donald Maxwell/Keith Latham (Scarpia)	Carlo Rizzi	Revival of 1987-8 production
1989–90	La finta giardiniera	Mozart	Anne Dawson (Sandrina), Paul Nilon (Belfiore), Nigel Robson (Podestà), Peter Savidge (Nardo), Katherine Steffan (Ramiro)	Alan Hacker	Tim Albery	Tom Cairns
1989–90	Show Boat	Kern	Linda Kitchen (Magnolia), Peter Savidge (Ravenal), Sally Burgess (Julie), Karla Burns/Ellia English (Queenie), Bruce Hubbard/José Garcia (Joe), Trevor Peacock (Cap’n Andy), Dilys Laye (Parthy)	Graeme Jenkins /Wyn Davies	Ian Judge	Russell Craig/ Alexander Reid
1989–90	The Barber of Seville	Rossini	Russell Smythe (Figaro), Clare Shearer (Rosina), Neill Archer (Almaviva), Andrew Shore (Dr Bartolo)	Marco Guidarini	Revival of 1986-7 production
1989–90	Don Pasquale	Donizetti	Andrew Shore/Roger Bryson (Pasquale), Adrian Martin (Ernesto), Juliet Booth/Judith Howarth (Norina), Robert Hayward (Malatesta)	David Lloyd-Jones /Hilary Griffiths	Patrick Mason	Joe Vaněk
1989–90	Jérusalem (British premiere)	Verdi	Arthur Davies (Gaston), José Garcia (Roger), Janice Cairns (Hélène), Keith Latham (Count of Toulouse)	Paul Daniel/ Roy Laughlin	Pierre Audi	Michael Simon/ Jorge Jara
1989–90	L'heure espagnole	Ravel	Louise Winter (Concepción), Jason Howard (Ramiro), Harry Nicoll (Gonzalve), Andrew Shore (Don Inigo Gomez)	David Lloyd-Jones	Martin Duncan	Tom Cairns
1989–90	Gianni Schicchi	Puccini	Andrew Shore (Schicchi), David Maxwell-Anderson (Rinuccio), Juliet Booth (Lauretta)	David Lloyd-Jones	Martin Duncan	Tom Cairns
1989–90	Orfeo ed Euridice	Gluck	Sally Burgess (Orfeo), Jane-Leslie Mackenzie (Euridice), Claire Daniels (Amor)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1983-4 production
1989–90	Maskarade (British professional premiere)	Nielsen	Paul Nilon (Leander), Mary Hegarty (Leonora), Geoffrey Dolton (Henrik), Meriel Dickinson (Magdelone), Clive Bayley (Jeronimus)	Elgar Howarth	Helena Kaut-Howson	Lez Brotherston
1990–91	Ariane et Barbe-bleue	Dukas	Anne-Marie Owens (Ariane), Jonathan Best (Bluebeard)	Paul Daniel	Patrick Mason	Joe Vaněk
1990–91	La traviata	Verdi	Eva Jenisová (Violetta), Bonaventura Bottone (Alfredo), Anthony Michaels-Moore/Jason Howard (Germont)	Carlo Rizzi	Revival of 1984-5 production
1990–91	The Threepenny Opera	Weill	Alan Oke (Macheath), Linda Kitchen (Polly), Kate Flowers (Jenny Diver), Mark Lufton (Peachum), Sandra Francis (Mrs Peachum)	Martin Pickard	Revival of 1983-4 production
1990–91	Così fan tutte	Mozart	Jane Leslie MacKenzie (Fiordiligi), Beverley Mills (Dorabella), Paul Nilon (Ferrando), Robert Hayward (Guglielmo), Kate Flowers (Despina), Eric Roberts (Don Alfonso)	Alan Hacker	Revival of 1981-2 production
1990–91	Attila	Verdi	John Tomlinson/Jan Galla (Attila), Karen Huffstodt/Josephine Barstow (Odabella), Edmund Barham (Foresto), Jason Howard (Ezio)	Paul Daniel	Ian Judge	John Gunter/ Deirdre Clancy
1990–91	The Jewel Box (world premiere)	Mozart	Barry Banks (Pedrolino), Mary Hegarty (Columbina), Pamela Helen Stephen (Composer), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Singer), Mark Curtis (Dottore), Quentin Hayes (Pantalone), Stephen Richardson (Father)	Elgar Howarth	Francisco Negrin	Anthony Baker
1990–91	Faust	Gounod	Arthur Davies (Faust), Anne Dawson (Marguerite), Richard Van Allan (Méphistophélès), Peter Savidge/Geoffrey Dolton (Valentin)	David Lloyd-Jones/ Roy Laughlin	Revival of 1985-6 production
1990–91	Carmen	Bizet	Sally Burgess (Carmen), Edmund Barham (Don José), Robert Hayward/Jason Howard (Escamillo), Anne Williams-King (Micaela)	Oliver von Dohnányi	Revival of 1987-8 production
1990–91	King Priam	Tippett	Andrew Shore (Priam), Christopher Ventris (Paris), Patricia Bardon (Helen), Neill Archer (Achilles), Eiddwen Harrhy (Hecuba), Geoffrey Dolton (Hector), Linda McLeod (Andromache)	Paul Daniel	Tom Cairns	Tom Cairns
1990–91	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Robert Hayward (Don Giovanni), Helen Field (Donna Anna), Jane Leslie MacKenzie (Donna Elvira), John Hall (Leporello), Paul Nilon (Don Ottavio)	Paul Daniel	Tim Albery	Ashley Martin-Davis
1991–92	L’étoile	Chabrier	Pamela Helen Stephen (Lazuli), Mary Hegarty (Princess Laoula), Anthony Mee (King Ouf), John Hall (Sirocco), Kate Flowers (Aloès), Alan Oke (Hérisson), Mark Curtis (Tapioca)	Jean‑Yves Ossonce /Martin Pickard	Phyllida Lloyd	Anthony Ward
1991–92	La finta giardiniera	Mozart	Lynne Dawson (Sandrina), Paul Nilon (Belfiore), Neil Jenkins (Podestà), Richard Jackson (Nardo), Luretta Bybee/Ann Taylor (Ramiro)	Alan Hacker	Revival of 1989-90 production
1991–92	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Robert Hayward (Don Giovanni), Helen Field/Bronwen Mills (Donna Anna), Jane Leslie MacKenzie (Donna Elvira), John Hall (Leporello), Paul Nilon (Don Ottavio)	Christopher Gayford	Revival of 1990-91 production
1991–92	The Jewel Box	Mozart	Barry Banks (Pedrolino), Mary Hegarty (Columbina), Pamela Helen Stephen (Composer), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Singer), Mark Curtis (Dottore), Quentin Hayes (Pantalone), Mark Glanville (Father)	Roy Laughlin/ Elgar Howarth	Revival of 1990-91 production
1991–92	Caritas (world premiere)	Saxton	Eirian Davies (Christine), Jonathan Best (Bishop Henry), Christopher Ventris (Robert), David Gwynne (Richard)	Diego Masson	Patrick Mason	Joe Vaněk
1991–92	Maskarade	Nielsen	Paul Nilon (Leander), Mary Hegarty (Leonora), Geoffrey Dolton (Henrik), Linda Ormiston (Magdelone), Clive Bayley (Jeronimus)	Roy Laughlin	Revival of 1989-90 production
1991–92	Madama Butterfly	Puccini	Maryanne Telese (Butterfly), Richard Taylor/David Maxwell Anderson (Pinkerton), Keith Latham (Sharpless), Patricia Bardon (Suzuki)	Martin André	Jonathan Alver	Lez Brotherston/ Stephen Rodwell
1991–92	Der ferne Klang (British premiere)	Schreker	Virginia Kerr (Grete), Kim Begley (Fritz), William Dazeley (Count), Peter Sidhom (Dr Vigelius)	Paul Daniel	Brigitte Fassbaender	Ultz
1991–92	La gazza ladra	Rossini	Anne Dawson (Ninetta), Barry Banks (Giannetto), Andrew Shore (Podestà), Matthew Best (Fernando), Elizabeth McCormack (Pippo)	Ivor Bolton	Martin Duncan	Sue Blane
1991–92	Rigoletto	Verdi	Keith Latham/Michael Lewis (Rigoletto), David Maxwell Anderson (Duke), Juliet Booth (Gilda)	John Pryce-Jones	Patrick Mason	Joe Vaněk
1991–92	Boris Godunov	Mussorgsky	John Tomlinson (Boris), Paul Charles Clarke (Grigory), Jeffrey Lawton (Shuisky), Matthew Best (Pimen)	Paul Daniel	Revival of 1988-89 production
1992–93	The Duenna (British premiere)	Gerhard	Susan Chilcott (Luisa), Pamela Helen Stephen (Clara), Adrian Clarke (Ferdinand), Gordon Wilson (Antonio), Andrew Shore (Jerome), Eric Roberts (Isaac), Gillian Knight (The Duenna)	Antoni Ros-Marbà	Helena Kaut-Howson	Sue Blane
1992–93	Rigoletto	Verdi	Michael Lewis (Rigoletto), David Maxwell Anderson (Duke), Rosa Mannion (Gilda)	Paul Daniel	Revival of 1991-2 production
1992–93	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart	Gerald Finley/David Mattinson (Figaro), Linda Kitchen/Mary Plazas (Susanna), Robert Hayward/William Dazeley (Count), Jane Leslie MacKenzie (Countess), Ann Taylor-Morley/Pamela Helen Stephen (Cherubino)	Andrew Parrott	Caroline Gawn	Alison Chitty
1992–93	Orpheus in the Underworld	Offenbach	Harry Nicoll (Orpheus), Yvonne Barclay (Euridice), Eric Roberts (Jupiter)	Wyn Davies	Martin Duncan	Tim Hatley
1992–93	Billy Budd	Britten	Jason Howard (Billy Budd), Nigel Robson/Philip Langridge (Captain Vere), John Tomlinson (Claggart)	Elgar Howarth	Graham Vick	Chris Dyer
1992–93	Iolanta	Tchaikovsky	Joan Rodgers (Iolanta), Kim Begley (Vaudémont), Robert Hayward (Robert), Gwynne Howell/Norman Bailey (King René)	David Lloyd-Jones/ Martin Pickard	Martin Duncan	Anthony Ward
1992–93	Don Carlos	Verdi	Richard Burke (Carlos), Linda McLeod (Elisabetta), Anthony Michaels-Moore (Posa), John Tomlinson (Philip II), Claire Powell (Eboli)	Paul Daniel/ Roy Laughlin	Tim Albery	Hildegard Bechtler /Nicky Gillibrand
1992–93	La bohème	Puccini	William Burden (Rodolfo), Jane Leslie MacKenzie (Mimi), Robert Hayward (Marcello), Juliet Booth (Musetta)	Roy Laughlin/ Paul Daniel	Phyllida Lloyd	Anthony Ward
1992–93	La Gioconda	Ponchielli	Rosalind Plowright/Marie Slorach (Gioconda), Edmund Barham (Enzo), Sally Burgess (Laura), Keith Latham (Barnaba)	Oliver von Dohnányi	Philip Prowse	Philip Prowse
1992–93	Wozzeck	Berg	Andrew Shore (Wozzeck), Vivian Tierney (Marie), Jeffrey Lawton (Captain), John Rath (Doctor), Alan Woodrow (Drum-Major)	Paul Daniel	Deborah Warner	Hildegard Bechtler /Nicky Gillibrand
1993–94	The Love for Three Oranges	Prokofiev	Christopher Ventris (The Prince), Paul Harrhy (Truffaldino), Andrew Shore (Leander), Maria Moll (Fata Morgana)	Wyn Davies/ Martin Pickard	Revival of 1988-9 production
1993–94	La bohème	Puccini	Gordon Wilson (Rodolfo), Juliet Booth (Mimi), Robert Hayward (Marcello), Janis Kelly (Musetta)	Bruno Aprea	Revival of 1992-3 production
1993–94	Tamerlano	Handel	Christopher Robson (Tamburlaine), Philip Langridge (Bajazet), Graham Pushee (Andronicus), Rosa Mannion (Asteria), Patricia Bardon (Irene)	Roy Goodman	Revival of 1984-5 production
1993–94	Baa-Baa Black Sheep (world premiere)	Berkeley	William Dazeley (Mowgli), Fiona Kimm (Auntirosa), Henry Newman (Captain)	Paul Daniel	Jonathan Moore	David Blight
1993–94	Il re pastore	Mozart	Joan Rodgers (Amyntas), Mary Hegarty (Elisa), Martyn Hill (Alexander), Patricia Bardon (Tamyris), Philip Salmon (Agenor)	Paul Daniel	David McVicar	Frank Higgins/ David McVicar
1993–94	Gloriana	Britten	Josephine Barstow (Elizabeth I), Thomas Randle (Essex), Susan Chilcott (Lady Rich), Karl Daymond (Mountjoy), Yvonne Burnett (Lady Essex), Clive Bayley (Raleigh), Eric Roberts (Cecil)	Paul Daniel	Phyllida Lloyd	Anthony Ward
1993–94	La traviata	Verdi	Michal Shamir (Violetta), David Maxwell Anderson (Alfredo), Peter Sodhom (Germont)	Jean‑Yves Ossonce /Roy Laughlin	Revival of 1984-5 production
1993–94	L’étoile	Chabrier	Pamela Helen Stephen (Lazuli), Mary Hegarty (Princess Laoula), Paul Nilon (King Ouf), Jonathan Best/Richard Van Allan (Sirocco), Kate Flowers (Aloès), Alan Oke (Hérisson), Mark Curtis (Tapioca)	Valentin Reymond	Revival of 1991-2 production
1993–94	La rondine	Puccini	Helen Field (Magda), Tito Beltrán (Ruggero), Peter Bronder (Prunier), Anna Maria Panzarella (Lisette), Peter Savidge (Rambaldo)	David Lloyd-Jones	Francesca Zambello	Bruno Schwengl
1993–94	The Magic Flute	Mozart	William Burden (Tamino), Linda Kitchen (Pamina), William Dazeley (Papageno), John Rath (Sarastro), Eileen Hulse (Queen of the Night)	Andrew Parrott	Annabel Arden	Rae Smith
1993–94	Playing Away (world premiere)	Mason	Philip Sheffield (Terry Bond), Rebecca Caine (LA Lola), Richard Suart (Stan Stock)	Paul Daniel	David Pountney	Huntley Muir
1994–95	Le roi malgré lui (British premiere)	Chabrier	Russell Smythe (Henri), Justin Lavender (Nangis), Rosa Mannion (Minka), Nicholas Folwell (Laski)	Paul Daniel	Jeremy Sams	Lez Brotherston
1994–95	The Magic Flute	Mozart	William Burden (Tamino), Linda Kitchen (Pamina), Karl Daymond (Papageno), John Rath (Sarastro), Eileen Hulse (Queen of the Night)	Harry Bicket	Revival of 1993-4 production
1994–95	Il trovatore	Verdi	Edmund Barham (Manrico), Katerina Kudriavchenko (Leonora), Sally Burgess/Claire Powell (Azucena), Ettore Kim (Count di Luna)	Paul Daniel/ Roy Laughlin	Inga Levant	Charles Edwards
1994–95	Il matrimonio segreto	Cimarosa	Paul Nilon (Paolino), Linda Kitchen (Carolina), Andrew Shore (Geronimo), Jonathan Best (Count Robinson), Mary Plazas (Elisetta), Tamsin Dives (Fidalma)	Richard Farnes	Jonathan Miller	John Conklin/ Stephen Rodwell
1994–95	Oberto	Verdi	John Tomlinson (Oberto), Rita Cullis (Leonora), David Maxwell Anderson (Riccardo) Linda Finnie (Cuniza)	David Porcelijn	John Tomlinson	Russell Craig
1994–95	Tosca	Puccini	Josephine Barstow/Marie Slorach (Tosca), Patrick Power (Cavaradossi), Matthew Best (Scarpia)	Stefano Ranzani	Revival of 1987-8 production
1994–95	Troilus and Cressida	Walton	Arthur Davies (Troilus), Judith Howarth (Cressida), Nigel Robson (Pandarus), Alan Opie (Diomede), Clive Bayley (Calkas), Yvonne Howard (Evadne)	Richard Hickox/ Martin Pickard	Matthew Warchus	Neil Warmington
1994–95	Les pêcheurs de perles	Bizet	Arthur Davies (Nadir), André Cognet (Zurga), Maria D’Aragnes (Leila)	Dietfried Bernet	Revival of 1988-9 production
1994–95	Orpheus in the Underworld	Offenbach	Jamie MacDougall (Orpheus), Yvonne Barclay (Euridice), Eric Roberts (Jupiter)	Paul McGrath	Revival of 1992-3 production
1994–95	Pelléas et Mélisande	Debussy	Joan Rodgers (Mélisande), William Dazeley (Pelléas), Robert Hayward (Golaud)	Paul Daniel	Richard Jones	Antony McDonald /Nicky Gillibrand
1995–96	Hamlet	Thomas	Anthony Michaels-Moore/Karl Daymond (Hamlet), Rebecca Caine (Ophélie), Linda Finnie (Gertrude), Jan Galla (Claudius), John Rath (Ghost)	Oliver von Dohnányi	David McVicar	Michael Vale
1995–96	Les pêcheurs de perles	Bizet	Léonard Pezzino (Nadir), André Cognet/Peter Savidge (Zurga), Maria D’Aragnes (Leila)	Brad Cohen	Revival of 1988-9 production
1995–96	Jenůfa	Janáček	Stephanie Friede (Jenůfa), Josephine Barstow (Kostelnička), Julian Gavin (Laca), Neill Archer/Jeffrey Stewart (Števa)	Paul Daniel	Tom Cairns	Tom Cairns
1995–96	Luisa Miller	Verdi	Susannah Glanville (Luisa), Arthur Davies (Rodolfo), Alan Opie (Miller), Matthew Best (Walter), Clive Bayley (Wurm)	Paul Daniel	Tim Albery	Stewart Lang
1995–96	La bohème	Puccini	Tito Beltrán/Alan Oke (Rodolfo), Margaret Richardson (Mimi), Karl Daymond (Marcello), Elena Ferrari (Musetta)	Jean‑Yves Ossonce /Martin Fitzpatrick	Revival of 1992-3 production
1995–96	Love Life	Weill	Margaret Preece (Susan), Alan Oke (Sam), Geoffrey Dolton (Magician/Vaudevillian/Hobo)	Wyn Davies	Caroline Gawn	Charles Edwards/ Nicky Gillibrand
1995–96	Médée	Cherubini	Josephine Barstow (Médée), Thomas Randle (Jason), Nicola Sharkey (Dircé), Norman Bailey (Creon)	Paul Daniel	Phyllida Lloyd	Ian MacNeil/ Kandis Cook
1995–96	The Duenna	Gerhard	Susannah Glanville (Luisa), Ann Taylor (Clara), Adrian Clarke (Ferdinand), Neill Archer (Antonio), Richard Van Allan (Jerome), Eric Roberts (Isaac), Claire Powell (The Duenna)	Antoni Ros-Marbà	Revival of 1992-3 production
1995–96	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart	Clive Bayley (Figaro), Linda Kitchen (Susanna), William Dazeley (Count), Janis Kelly (Countess), Alice Coote/Ann Taylor (Cherubino)	Richard Farnes	Caroline Gawn	Alice Purcell
1996–97	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart	Richard Whitehouse (Figaro), Mary Hegarty (Susanna), Roderick Williams (Count), Janis Kelly (Countess), Ann Taylor (Cherubino)	Paul Goodwin	Revival of 1995-6 production
1996–97	Madama Butterfly	Puccini	Chen Sue (Butterfly), Mark Nicolson (Pinkerton), Peter Savidge/Simon Thorpe (Sharpless), Liane Keegan (Suzuki)	Marco Zambelli/ Martin Pickard/ Paul Daniel	Dalia Ibelhauptaitė	Oleg Cheintsis
1996–97	Iphigénie en Aulide	Gluck	Lynne Dawson (Iphigenia), Neill Archer (Achilles), Christopher Purves (Agammemnon), Della Jones (Clytemnestra), John Rath (Calchas)	Valentin Reymond	Tim Hopkins	Nigel Lowery
1996–97	Wozzeck	Berg	Andrew Shore (Wozzeck), Josephine Barstow (Marie), Peter Bronder (Captain), Clive Bayley (Doctor), Jacque Trussel/Keith Mills (Drum-Major)	Paul Daniel	Revival of 1992-3 production
1996–97	Gloriana	Britten	Josephine Barstow (Elizabeth I), Thomas Randle (Essex), Susannah Glanville (Lady Rich), Karl Daymond (Mountjoy), Ruth Peel (Lady Essex), Clive Bayley (Raleigh), Eric Roberts (Cecil)	James Holmes/ Paul Daniel	Revival of 1993-4 production
1996–97	Falstaff	Verdi	Andrew Shore (Falstaff), Rita Cullis (Alice Ford), Robert Hayward (Ford), Paul Nilon (Fenton), Margaret Richardson (Nanetta), Frances McCafferty (Mistress Quickly), Yvonne Howard (Meg Page)	Paul Daniel	Matthew Warchus	Laura Hopkins
1996–97	Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria	Monteverdi	Alice Coote (Penelope), Nigel Robson (Ulysses)	Harry Bicket/ Martin Pickard	Annabel Arden	Tim Hatley
1996–97	Tannhäuser	Wagner	Jeffrey Lawton (Tannhäuser), Rita Cullis (Elisabeth), Anne-Marie (Venus), Keith Latham (Wolfram), Norman Bailey (Landgrave)	Paul Daniel/ James Holmes	David Fielding	David Fielding
1996–97	Cosí fan tutte	Mozart	Susannah Glanville (Fiordiligi), Emma Selway (Dorabella), Paul Nilon (Ferrando), William Dazeley (Guglielmo), Linda Kitchen (Despina), Jonathan Best (Don Alfonso)	Claire Gibault/ Martin Fitzpatrick	Tim Albery	Matthew Howland Robin Rawstorne /Tania Spooner
1997–98	Aida	Verdi	Josephine Barstow (Aida), Edmund Barham (Radames), Sally Burgess (Amneris), Jonathan Summers (Amonasro)	Giuliano Carella	Revival of 1985-6 production
1997–98	Così fan tutte	Mozart	Elena Ferrari (Fiordiligi), Alice Coote/Claire Evans (Dorabella), Jeffrey Stewart (Ferrando), Garry Magee (Guglielmo), Margaret Preece (Despina), Eric Roberts (Don Alfonso)	Martin Fitzpatrick	Revival of 1996-7 production
1997–98	Julietta	Martinů	Rebecca Caine (Julietta), Paul Nilon (Mischa)	Steuart Bedford	David Pountney	Stefanos Lazaridis /Marie-Jeanne Lecca
1997–98	The Magic Flute	Mozart	Jamie MacDougall/Jeffrey Stewart (Tamino), Margaret Richardson (Pamina), Eric Roberts (Papageno), Clive Bayley (Sarastro), Cara O’Sullivan/Laure Meloy (Queen of the Night)	Brad Cohen/ Martin Pickard	Annabel Arden	Roswitha Gerlitz
1997–98	Sweeney Todd	Sondheim	Steven Page (Sweeney Todd), Beverley Klein (Mrs Lovett)	James Holmes	David McVicar	Michael Vale/ Kevin Knight
1997–98	The Barber of Seville	Rossini	Roderick Williams (Figaro), Ann Taylor (Rosina), Iain Paton (Almaviva), Eric Roberts (Dr Bartolo)	Daniel Beckwith/ Dominic Wheeler	Revival of 1986-7 production
1997–98	Eugene Onegin	Tchaikovsky	Alwyn Mellor (Tatyana), Peter Savidge (Onegin), Paul Nilon (Lensky), Emer McGilloway (Olga)	Steven Sloane/ Martin Pickard	Dalia Ibelhauptaitė	Giles Cadle/ Sue Willmington
1997–98	Giovanna d'Arco	Verdi	Susannah Glanville (Giovanna), Julian Gavin (Carlo VII), Keith Latham (Giacomo)	Richard Farnes	Philip Prowse	Philip Prowse
1997–98	Of Thee I Sing	Gershwin	William Dazeley (Wintergreen), Margaret Preece (Mary), Kim Criswell (Diana Devereux), Steven Beard (Alexander Throttlebottom)	Wyn Davies	Caroline Gawn	Charles Edwards/ Nicky Gillibrand
1998–99	Il re pastore	Mozart	Rebecca Caine (Amyntas), Mary Hegarty (Elisa), Peter Bronder (Alexander), Alice Coote (Tamyris), Nicholas Sears (Agenor)	Paul Goodwin	Revival of 1993-4 production
1998–99	The Bartered Bride	Smetana	Alwin Mellor (Mařenka), Neill Archer (Jeník), Clive Bayley (Kecal), Iain Paton (Vašek)	Oliver von Dohnányi	Daniel Slater	Robert Innes Hopkins
1998–99	Don Carlos	Verdi	Julian Gavin (Carlos), Lori Phillips (Elisabetta), Jeffrey Black (Posa), Alastair Miles (Philip II), Sally Burgess (Eboli)	Yves Abel	Revival of 1992-3 production
1998–99	The Nightingale’s to Blame	Holt	Donald Maxwell (Perlimpin), Patricia Rozario (Belisa), Fiona Kimm (Marcolfa), Frances McCafferty (Belisa’s mother)	Richard Farnes	Martin Duncan	Neil Irish
1998–99	Carmen	Bizet	Ruby Philogene (Carmen), Antoni Garfield Henry (Don José), Mark Stone (Escamillo), Susannah Glanville/Majella Cullagh (Micaela)	András Ligeti	Phyllida Lloyd	Tim Hatley
1998–99	La gazza ladra	Rossini	Mary Hegarty (Ninetta), Jeffrey Stewart (Giannetto), Christopher Purves (Podestà), Jonathan Best (Fernando), Ann Taylor (Pippo)	David Charles Abell	Revival of 1991-2 production
1998–99	Arabella	R Strauss	Susannah Glanville (Arabella), Robert Hayward (Mandryka), Isabel Molnar (Zdenka), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Matteo), Richard Angas (Waldner), Carole Wilson (Adelaide)	Elgar Howarth	Francisco Negrin	Paul Steinberg/ Jon Morrell
1998–99	Gloriana	Britten	Josephine Barstow (Elizabeth I), Thomas Randle (Essex), Susannah Glanville (Lady Rich), David Ellis (Mountjoy), Emer McGilloway (Lady Essex), Clive Bayley (Raleigh), Eric Roberts (Cecil)	Paul Daniel	Revival of 1993-4 production
1999–00	La traviata	Verdi	Janis Kelly (Violetta), Thomas Randle (Alfredo), Keith Latham (Germont)	Richard Farnes/ Martin Pickard	Annabel Arden	Nicky Gillibrand
1999–00	Káťa Kabanová	Janáček	Vivian Tierney (Katya), Alan Oke (Boris), Jamie MacDougall (Kudryash), Ann Taylor (Varvara), Gillian Knight (Kabanicha)	Steven Sloane	Tim Albery	Hildegard Bechtler
1999–00	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Garry Magee (Don Giovanni), Majella Cullach (Donna Anna), Claron McFadden/Emma Bell (Donna Elvira), Jonathan Best/Iain Patterson (Leporello), ??? (Don Ottavio)	Dominic Wheeler	David McVicar	Kevin Knight
1999–00	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Britten	Christopher Josey (Oberon), Claron McFadden (Tytania), Jonathan Best (Bottom), Nicholas Sears (Lysander), Helen Williams (Helena), Ann Taylor (Hermia), Mark Stone (Demetrius)	Steven Sloane	Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier	Christian Fenouillat /Agostino Cavalca
1999–00	Madama Butterfly	Puccini	Lada Biriucov/Rosalind Sutherland (Butterfly), Julian Gavin/David Maxwell Anderson (Pinkerton), Steven Page (Sharpless), Jane Irwin (Suzuki)	Stephen Barlow	Revival of 1996-7 production
1999–00	Falstaff	Verdi	Conal Coad (Falstaff), Josephine Barstow (Alice Ford), Brent Ellis (Ford), Wynne Evans (Fenton), Thora Einarsdottir (Nanetta), Frances McCafferty (Mistress Quickly), Yvonne Howard (Meg Page)	Steven Sloane/ Lionel Friend	Revival of 1996-7 production
1999–00	La Gioconda	Ponchielli	Claire Rutter (Gioconda), David Maxwell Anderson (Enzo), Katja Lytting (Laura), Jonathan Summers (Barnaba)	Oliver von Dohnányi	Revival of 1992-3 production
1999–00	Radamisto	Handel	David Walker (Radamisto), Alice Coote (Zenobia), Helen Williams (Polissena), Emma Bell (Tigrane), Michael John Pearson (Tiridate), Elizabeth McCormack (Fraarte)	Harry Bicket	Tim Hopkins	Charles Edwards
1999–00	Orpheus in the Underworld	Offenbach	Jamie MacDougall (Orpheus), Yvonne Barclay (Euridice), Eric Roberts (Jupiter)	Wyn Davies	Revival of 1992-3 production
2000–01	Genoveva	Schumann	Patricia Schuman (Genoveva), Christopher Purves (Siegfried), Paul Nilon (Golo), Clive Bayley (Drago), Keith Latham (Hidulfus), Sally Burgess (Margaretha)	Steven Sloane/ James Holmes	David Pountney	Ralph Koltai/ Sue Willmington
2000–01	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart	James Rutherford/Christopher Purves (Figaro), Colette Delahunt (Susanna), Roderick Williams/Stephan Loges (Count), Majella Cullagh/Simone Sauphanor (Countess), Emer McGilloway (Cherubino)	Roderick Bryden /Stephen Clarke	Revival of 1995-6 production
2000–01	La rondine	Puccini	Janis Kelly (Magda), Jorge Antonio Pita (Ruggero), Wynne Evans (Prunier), Mary Hegarty (Lisette), Jonathan Best (Rambaldo)	Dietfried Bernet	Revival of 1993-4 production
2000–01	L'elisir d'amore	Donizetti	Mary Hegarty (Adina), Paul Nilon (Nemorino), Christopher Purves (Dulcamara), Richard Whitehouse (Belcore)	David Parry	Daniel Slater	Robert Innes Hopkins
2000–01	Pelléas et Mélisande	Debussy	Joan Rodgers (Mélisande), William Dazeley (Pelléas), Robert Hayward (Golaud)	Paul Daniel/ James Holmes	Revival of 1994-5 production
2000–01	Tristan und Isolde	Wagner	Mark Lundberg (Tristan), Susan Bullock (Isolde), Anne-Marie Owens (Brangäne), John Wegner (Kurwenal), Donald McIntyre (King Marke)	Steven Sloane	Keith Warner	Keith Warner/ Elaine Robertson
2000–01	Eugene Onegin	Tchaikovsky	Giselle Allen (Tatyana), William Dazeley/Richard Whitehouse (Onegin), Iain Paton (Lensky), Cécile van de Sant (Olga)	Richard Farnes	Revival of 1997-8 production
2000–01	Moscow, Cheryomushki	Shostakovich	Alan Oke (Sergei), Rachel Taylor (Lusya), Janie Dee (Lidochka), Loren Geeting (Boris), Daniel Broad (Sasha), Gillian Kirkpatrick (Masha)	Steven Sloane/ James Holmes	David Pountney	Robert Innes Hopkins
2001–02	The Cunning Little Vixen	Janáček	Janis Kelly (Vixen), Christopher Purves (Forester), Giselle Allen (Fox), Nigel Robson (Schoolmaster), Richard Angas/Michael John Pearson (Priest)	Steven Sloane	Annabel Arden	Richard Hudson
2001–02	La bohème	Puccini	Harrie van der Plas/Peter Auty (Rodolfo), Mary Plazas/Barbara Haveman (Mimi), William Dazeley/Mark Stone (Marcello), Christine Buffle/Giselle Allen (Musetta)	Steven Sloane/ Dietfried Bernet	Revival of 1992-3 production
2001–02	Gloriana	Britten	Josephine Barstow (Elizabeth I), Thomas Randle (Essex), Susannah Glanville (Lady Rich), Karl Daymond (Mountjoy), Ruth Peel (Lady Essex), Mark Beesley (Raleigh), Eric Roberts (Cecil)	Richard Farnes	Revival of 1993-4 production
2001–02	Albert Herring	Britten	Iain Paton (Albert), Josephine Barstow (Lady Billows), Richard Whitehouse (Sid), Heather Shipp (Nancy), Ethna Robinson (Mrs Herring)	James Holmes	Phyllida Lloyd	Scott Pask
2001–02	Sweeney Todd	Sondheim	Steven Page (Sweeney Todd), Beverley Klein (Mrs Lovett)	James Holmes	Revival of 1997-8 production
2001–02	L'enfant et les sortilèges	Ravel	Claire Wild (The child),	Emmanuel Plasson	Amir Hosseinpour/ Nigel Lowery	Nigel Lowery
2001–02	Oedipus rex	Stravinsky	Stuart Skelton (Oedipus), Natascha Petrinsky (Jocasta), Ashley Holland (Creon), Jeremy White (Tiresias)	Steven Sloane	Charles Edwards	Charles Edwards
2002–03	Tosca	Puccini	Nina Pavlovski/Susannah Glanville (Tosca), Rafael Rojas/Ian Storey (Cavaradossi), Robert McFarland/Matthew Best (Scarpia)	Steven Sloane/ Richard Farnes	Christopher Alden	Charles Edwards/ Jon Morrell
2002–03	Jenůfa	Janáček	Giselle Allen (Jenůfa), Josephine Barstow (Kostelnička), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Laca), Kevin Anderson (Števa)	Elgar Howarth	Revival of 1995-6 production
2002–03	Der Rosenkavalier	R Strauss	Deanne Meek (Octavian), Janis Kelly (Marschallin), Conal Coad (Baron Ochs), Marie Arnet (Sophie), Christopher Purves (Faninal)	Dietfried Bernet	David McVicar	David McVicar & Michael Vale/ Tanya McCallin
2002–03	Il matrimonio segreto	Cimarosa	Wynne Evans (Paolino), Mary Nelson (Carolina), Henry Waddington (Geronimo), Richard Morrison (Count Robinson), Natasha Jouhl (Elisetta), Louise Mott (Fidalma)	Wyn Davies	Revival of 1994-5 production
2002–03	Idomeneo	Mozart	Paul Nilon (Idomeneo), Paula Hoffman (Idamante), Natasha Marsh (Ilia), Janis Kelly (Elettra)	David Parry	Tim Albery	Dany Lyne
2002–03	Julietta	Martinů	Rebecca Caine (Julietta), Paul Nilon (Mischa),	Martin André	Revival of 1997-8 production
2002–03	The Magic Flute	Mozart	Philippe Do (Tamino), Thora Einarsdottir (Pamina), Matthew Sharpe (Papageno), Mark Coles (Sarastro), Helen Williams (Queen of the Night)	William Lacey	Tim Supple	Jean Kalman/ Tom Pye
2002–03	La damnation de Faust	Berlioz	Stephen O’Mara (Faust), Alastair Miles (Mephistophélès), Lilli Paasikivi (Marguérite)	Frederic Chaslin	Matthias Janser
2003–04	La traviata	Verdi	Janis Kelly/Anne-Sophie Duprels (Violetta), Thomas Randle/Peter Auty (Alfredo), Robert McFarland/Robert Poulton (Germont)	Mark Shanahan/ Richard Farnes	Revival of 1999-2000 production
2003–04	Rusalka	Dvořák	Giselle Allen (Rusalka), Stuart Skelton (Prince), Richard Angas (Water Sprite), Susannah Glanville (Foreign Princess), Susan Bickley (Jezibaba)	Sebastian Lang-Lessing	Olivia Fuchs	Nicki Turner
2003–04	Manon	Massenet	Malin Byström (Manon), Julian Gavin (Des Grieux), William Dazeley (Lescaut)	Grant Llewellyn	Daniel Slater	Francis O’Connor
2003–04	The Barber of Seville	Rossini	Garry Magee (Figaro), Deanne Meek (Rosina), Nick Sales (Almaviva), Eric Roberts (Dr Bartolo)	Wyn Davies	Revival of 1986-7 production
2003–04	The Bartered Bride	Smetana	Giselle Allen (Mařenka), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Jeník), Jeremy White (Kecal), Iain Paton (Vašek)	Martyn Brabbins	Revival of 1998-9 production
2003–04	Der Zwerg	Zemlinsky	Paul Nilon (The Dwarf), Stefanie Krahnenfeld (Donna Clara), Majella Cullagh (Gita), Graeme Broadbent (Don Estoban)	David Parry	David Pountney	Johan Engels/ Marie-Jeanne Lecca
2003–04	La vida breve	Falla	Mary Plazas (Salud), Leonardo Capalbo (Paco), Susan Gorton (Grandmother)	Martin André	Christopher Alden	Johan Engels/ Sue Willmington
2003–04	Il tabarro	Puccini	Nina Pavlovski (Giorgetta), Jonathan Summers (Michele), Leonardo Capalbo (Luigi), Anne-Marie Owens (La Frugola)	Martin André	David Pountney	Johan Engels/ Sue Willmington
2003–04	L'occasione fa il ladro	Rossini	Mark Stone (Don Parmenione), Iain Paton (Count Alberto), Majella Cullagh (Berenice), Kim-Marie Woodhouse (Ernestina), Adrian Clarke (Martino), Nicholas Sharratt (Don Eusebio)	David Parry	Christopher Alden	Johan Engels/ Tom Pye
2003–04	Francesca da Rimini	Rachmaninoff	Nina Pavlovski (Francesca), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Dante/Paolo), Jonathan Summers (Ghost of Virgil/Malatesta)	Martin André	David Pountney	Johan Engels/ Sue Willmington
2003–04	Pagliacci	Leoncavallo	Geraint Dodd (Canio), Majella Cullagh (Nedda), Jonathan Summers (Tonio), Iain Paton (Beppe), Mark Stone (Silvio)	David Parry	Christopher Alden	Johan Engels/ Sue Willmington
2003–04	Djamileh	Bizet	Patricia Bardon (Djamileh), Paul Nilon (Haroun), Mark Stone (Splendiano)	David Parry	Christopher Alden	Johan Engels/ Sue Willmington
2003–04	The Seven Deadly Sins	Weill	Beate Vollack (Anna I), Iain Paton (Tenor I), Nicholas Sharratt (Tenor II), Adrian Clarke (Father), Graeme Broadbent (Mother)	James Holmes	David Pountney	Johan Engels/ Marie-Jeanne Lecca
2004–05	Orfeo ed Euridice	Gluck	Daniel Taylor (Orfeo), Isabel Monar (Euridice), Claire Ormshaw (Amor)	Nicholas Kok	Emio Greco	Pieter C Sholten /Clifford Portier
2004–05	Manon Lescaut	Puccini	Natalia Dercho (Manon), Hugh Smith (Des Grieux), Christopher Purves (Lescaut)	Richard Farnes	Daniel Slater	Robert Innes Hopkins
2004–05	Così fan tutte	Mozart	Malin Byström (Fiordiligi), Ann Taylor (Dorabella), Iain Paton (Ferrando), Roderick Williams (Guglielmo), Claire Wild (Despina), Peter Savidge (Don Alfonso)	Yves Abel	Tim Albery	Tobias Hoheisel
2004–05	One Touch of Venus	Weill	Karen Coker (Venus), Loren Geeting (Rodney Hatch), Christianne Tisdale (Molly), Ron Li-Paz (Whitelaw Savory)	James Holmes	Tim Albery	Antony McDonald /Emma Ryott
2004–05	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Roderick Williams (Don Giovanni), Susannah Glanville (Donna Anna), Giselle Allen (Donna Elvira), Andrew Foster-Williams (Leporello), Iain Paton (Don Ottavio)	Richard Farnes	Olivia Fuchs	Niki Turner /Emma Ryott
2004–05	La gazza ladra	Rossini	Mary Hegarty (Ninetta), Ashley Catling (Giannetto), Robert Poulton (Podestà), Jonathan Best (Fernando), Anne-Marie Gibbons (Pippo)	David Parry	Revival of 1991-2 production
2004–05	Bluebeard's Castle	Bartók	John Tomlinson (Bluebeard), Sally Burgess (Judith)	Richard Farnes	Giles Havergal	Adam Wiltshire
2005–06	Saul	Handel	Robert Hayward (Saul), Tim Mead (David), Lucy Crowe (Michal), Sarah Fox (Merab), Mark Wilde (Jonathan)	Christian Curnyn	John Fulljames	Soutra Gilmour
2005–06	Hänsel und Gretel	Humperdinck	Julianne Young (Hansel), Jeni Bern (Gretel), Peter Hoare (Witch), Christopher Purves (Peter)	Richard Farnes	John Fulljames	Soutra Gilmour
2005–06	The Marriage of Figaro	Mozart	Wyn Pencarreg (Figaro), Jenni Bern/Lucy Crowe (Susanna), Howard Reddy/James McOran-Campbell (Count), Linda Richardson (Countess), Julianne Young (Cherubino)	Christian Gansch	Revival of 1995-6 production
2005–06	La rondine	Puccini	Janis Kelly (Magda), Rafael Rojas (Ruggero), Alan Oke (Prunier), Gail Pearson (Lisette), Peter Savidge/Jonathan Best (Rambaldo)	Richard Farnes	Revival of 1993-4 production
2005–06	Der Kuhhandel	Weill	Leonardo Capalbo (Juan), Mary Plazas/Deborah Norman (Juanita), Jeffrey Lawton (Mendez), Adrian Clarke (Jones), Robert Burt (Ximenes), Donald Maxwell (Conchas)	James Holmes	David Pountney	Duncan Hayler
2006–07	Rigoletto	Verdi	Alan Opie/Jonathan Summers (Rigoletto), Rafael Rojas (Duke), Henriette Bonde-Hansen/Linda Richardson (Gilda)	Martin André/ Mark Shanahan	Charles Edwards	Charles Edwards
2006–07	Peter Grimes	Britten	Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Grimes), Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford), Christopher Purves (Balstrode)	Richard Farnes	Phyllida Lloyd	Anthony Ward
2006–07	La voix humaine	Poulenc	Joan Rodgers (Elle)	Paul Watkins	Tom Pye	Tom Pye
2006–07	The Magic Flute	Mozart	Ed Lyon/Peter Wedd (Tamino), Noriko Urata (Pamina), Roderick Williams/Riccardo Simonetti (Papageno), Chester Patton (Sarastro), Penelope Randall-Davis (Queen of the Night)	Paul McGrath	Revival of 2002-3 production
2006–07	L'elisir d'amore	Donizetti	Anna Ryberg (Adina), Andrew Kennedy (Nemorino), Peter Savidge (Dulcamara), Riccardo Simonetti (Belcore)	Tecwyn Evans	Revival of 2000-1 production
2006–07	L'Orfeo	Monteverdi	Paul Nilon (Orfeo)	Christopher Moulds	Christopher Alden	Paul Steinberg /Doey Lüethi
2006–07	Káťa Kabanová	Janáček	Giselle Allen (Katya), Peter Wedd (Boris), Ashley Catling (Kudryash), Wendy Dawn Thompson (Varvara), Sally Burgess (Kabanicha)	Richard Farnes	Tim Albery	Hildegard Bechtler
2006–07	Dido and Aeneas	Purcell	Susan Bickley (Dido), Amy Freston (Belinda), Adam Green (Aeneas)	Nicholas Kok	Aletta Collins	Giles Cadle/ Gabriella Dalton
2007–08	Madama Butterfly	Puccini	Anne Sophie Duprels (Butterfly), Rafael Rojas (Pinkerton), Peter Savidge (Sharpless), Ann Taylor (Suzuki)	Wyn Davies	Tim Albery	Hildegard Bechtler /Ana Jebens
2007–08	Falstaff	Verdi	Robert Hayward (Falstaff), Susannah Glanville (Alice Ford), Olafur Sigurdarson (Ford), Ashley Catling (Fenton), Valérie Condoluci (Nanetta), Susan Bickley (Mistress Quickly), Deanne Meek (Meg Page)	Richard Farnes	Revival of 1996-7 production
2007–08	Croesus	Keiser	Paul Nilon (Croesus), Michael Maniaci (Atis), Gillian Keith (Elmira), Henry Waddington (Cyrus), William Dazeley (Orsanes), Fflur Wyn (Clerida)	Harry Bicket	Tim Albery	Leslie Travers
2007–08	The Adventures of Pinocchio (world premiere)	Dove	Victoria Simmonds (Pinocchio), Jonathan Summers (Geppetto), Mary Plazas (Blue Fairy), Mark Wilde (Cat), James Laing (Fox)	David Parry	Martin Duncan	Francis O’Connor
2007–08	Peter Grimes	Britten	Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Grimes), Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford), Christopher Purves (Balstrode)	Richard Farnes	Revival of 2006-7 production
2007–08	Macbeth	Verdi	Robert Hayward (Macbeth), Antonia Cifrone/Yvonne Howard (Lady Macbeth), Peter Auty (Macduff)	Richard Farnes/ Martin Pickard	Tim Albery	Johan Engels/ Brigitte Reiffenstuel
2007–08	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Britten	James Laing (Oberon), Jeni Bern (Tytania), Henry Waddington (Bottom), Peter Wedd (Lysander), Elizabeth Atherton (Helena), Frances Bourne (Hermia), Mark Stone (Demetrius)	Stuart Stratford	Martin Duncan	Johan Engels /Ashley Martin-Davis
2007–08	Roméo et Juliette	Gounod	Leonardo Capalbo (Roméo), Bernarda Bobro (Juliette), Frances Bourne (Stéphano), Stephan Loges (Mercutio), Henry Waddington (Frère Laurent)	Martin André/ Peter Selwyn	John Fulljames	Johan Engels/ Adam Wiltshire
2008–09	Of Thee I Sing	Gershwin	William Dazeley (Wintergreen), Bibi Heal (Mary), Heather Shipp (Diana Devereux), Steven Beard (Alexander Throttlebottom)	Mark W Dorrell	Revival of 1997-8 production
2008–09	Tosca	Puccini	Takesha Meshé Kizart (Tosca), Rafael Rojas (Cavaradossi), Robert Hayward (Scarpia)	Andrea Licata/ Martin Pickard	Revival of 2002-3 production
2008–09	I Capuleti e i Montecchi	Bellini	Sarah Connolly (Romeo), Marie Arnett (Giulietta), Edgaras Montvidas (Tebaldo)	Manlio Benzi	Orpha Phelan	Leslie Travers
2008–09	Skin Deep (world premiere)	Sawer	Geoffrey Dolton (Needlemeier), Janis Kelly (Lania), Heather Shipp (Donna), Amy Freston (Elsa), Andrew Tortise (Robert), Mark Stone/Riccardo Simonetti (Luke), Gwendoline Christie (Susannah)	Richard Farnes	Richard Jones	Stewart Laing
2008–09	Let 'Em Eat Cake	Gershwin	William Dazeley (Wintergreen), Bibi Heal (Mary), Steven Beard (Alexander Throttlebottom), Richard Burkhard (Kruger), Richard Suart (General Snookfield)	Wyn Davies/ Mark W Dorrell	Caroline Gawn	Tim Hopkins/ Gabrielle Dalton
2008–09	Moscow, Cheryomushki	Shostakovich	Philip O’Brien (Sergei), Claire Pascoe (Lusya), Summer Strallen (Lidochka), Eaton James (Boris), Grant Doyle (Sasha), Bibi Heal (Masha)	James Holmes	Revival of 2000-1 production
2008–09	Don Carlos	Verdi	Julian Gavin (Carlos), Janice Watson (Elisabetta), William Dazeley (Posa), Brindley Sherratt/Alastair Miles (Philip II), Jane Dutton (Eboli)	Richard Farnes	Revival of 1992-3 production
2008–09	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	Mozart	Kate Valentine (Konstanze), Allan Clayton/Joshua Ellicott (Belmonte), Clive Bayley (Osmin), Elena Xanthoudakis (Blonde), Nicholas Sharratt (Pedrillo)	Rory Macdonald	Tim Hopkins	Tim Hopkins/ Gideon Davey
2009–10	Così fan tutte	Mozart	Elizabeth Atherton (Fiordiligi), Victoria Simmonds (Dorabella), Allan Clayton (Ferrando), Quirijn de Lang (Guglielmo), Amy Freston (Despina), Geoffrey Dolton (Don Alfonso)	Andrew Parrott/ Justin Doyle	Revival of 2004-5 production
2009–10	Werther	Massenet	Paul Nilon (Werther), Alice Coote/Ann Taylor (Charlotte), Fflur Wyn (Sophie)	Richard Farnes	Tom Cairns	Hildegard Bechtler /Amy Roberts
2009–10	The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century	Janáček	John Graham-Hall (Brouček), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Mazal), Anne Sophie Duprels (Málinka), Donald Maxwell (Würfl), Jonathan Best (Sacristan)	Martin André	John Fulljames	Alex Lowde
2009–10	La bohème	Puccini	Bülent Bezdüz (Rodolfo), Anne Sophie Duprels (Mimi), Marcin Bronikowski (Marcello), Sarah Fox (Musetta)	Richard Farnes/ Geoffrey Paterson	Revival of 1992-3 production
2009–10	Ruddigore	Sullivan	Grant Doyle (Robin/Ruthven), Amy Freston (Rose), Hal Cazalet (Richard), Richard Burkhardt (Despard), Heather Shipp (Mad Margaret), Steven Page (Sir Roderick), Anne-Marie Owens (Dame Hannah)	John Wilson/ Anthony Kraus	Jo Davies	Richard Hudson/ Gabrielle Dalton
2009–10	Rusalka	Dvořák	Giselle Allen (Rusalka), Richard Berkeley-Steele (Prince), Richard Angas (Water Sprite), Susannah Glanville (Foreign Princess), Anne-Marie Owens (Jezibaba)	Oliver von Dohnanyi	Revival of 2003-4 production
2009–10	Maria Stuarda	Donizetti	Sarah Connolly (Maria), Antonia Cifrone (Elisabetta), Bülent Bezdüz (Leicester), David Kempster (Cecil), Frédéric Bourreau (Talbot)	Guido Johannes Rumstadt	Antony McDonald	Antony McDonald

comparison

Season	Opera	Composer	Principal cast	Conductor	Director	Designer
2004–05	Orfeo ed Euridice	Gluck	Daniel Taylor (Orfeo), Isabel Monar (Euridice), Claire Ormshaw (Amor)	Nicholas Kok	Emio Greco	Pieter C Sholten/Clifford Portier
2004–05	Manon Lescaut	Puccini	Natalia Dercho (Manon), Hugh Smith (Des Grieux), Christopher Purves (Lescaut)	Richard Farnes	Daniel Slater	Robert Innes Hopkins
2004–05	Così fan tutte	Mozart	Malin Byström (Fiordiligi), Ann Taylor (Dorabella), Iain Paton (Ferrando), Roderick Williams (Guglielmo), Claire Wild (Despina), Peter Savidge (Don Alfonso)	Yves Abel	Tim Albery	Tobias Hoheisel
2004–05	One Touch of Venus	Weill	Karen Coker (Venus), Loren Geeting (Rodney Hatch), Christianne Tisdale (Molly), Ron Li-Paz (Whitelaw Savory)	James Holmes	Tim Albery	Antony McDonald/Emma Ryott
2004–05	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Roderick Williams (Don Giovanni), Susannah Glanville (Donna Anna), Giselle Allen (Donna Elvira), Andrew Foster-Williams (Leporello), Iain Paton (Don Ottavio)	Richard Farnes	Olivia Fuchs	Niki Turner/Emma Ryott
2004–05	La gazza ladra	Rossini	Mary Hegarty (Ninetta), Ashley Catling (Giannetto), Robert Poulton (Podestà), Jonathan Best (Fernando), Anne-Marie Gibbons (Pippo)	David Parry	Revival of 1991-2 production
2004–05	Bluebeard's Castle	Bartók	John Tomlinson (Bluebeard), Sally Burgess (Judith)	Richard Farnes	Giles Havergal	Adam Wiltshire

Season	Opera	Composer	Principal cast	Conductor	Director	Designer
2004–05	Orfeo ed Euridice	Gluck	Daniel Taylor (Orfeo), Isabel Monar (Euridice), Claire Ormshaw (Amor)	Nicholas Kok	Emio Greco	Pieter C Sholten /Clifford Portier
2004–05	Manon Lescaut	Puccini	Natalia Dercho (Manon), Hugh Smith (Des Grieux), Christopher Purves (Lescaut)	Richard Farnes	Daniel Slater	Robert Innes Hopkins
2004–05	Così fan tutte	Mozart	Malin Byström (Fiordiligi), Ann Taylor (Dorabella), Iain Paton (Ferrando), Roderick Williams (Guglielmo), Claire Wild (Despina), Peter Savidge (Don Alfonso)	Yves Abel	Tim Albery	Tobias Hoheisel
2004–05	One Touch of Venus	Weill	Karen Coker (Venus), Loren Geeting (Rodney Hatch), Christianne Tisdale (Molly), Ron Li-Paz (Whitelaw Savory)	James Holmes	Tim Albery	Antony McDonald /Emma Ryott
2004–05	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Roderick Williams (Don Giovanni), Susannah Glanville (Donna Anna), Giselle Allen (Donna Elvira), Andrew Foster-Williams (Leporello), Iain Paton (Don Ottavio)	Richard Farnes	Olivia Fuchs	Niki Turner /Emma Ryott
2004–05	La gazza ladra	Rossini	Mary Hegarty (Ninetta), Ashley Catling (Giannetto), Robert Poulton (Podestà), Jonathan Best (Fernando), Anne-Marie Gibbons (Pippo)	David Parry	Revival of 1991-2 production
2004–05	Bluebeard's Castle	Bartók	John Tomlinson (Bluebeard), Sally Burgess (Judith)	Richard Farnes	Giles Havergal	Adam Wiltshire

previous

Season	Opera	Composer	Principal cast	Conductor	Director	Designer
1980-1981	Oedipus rex	Stravinsky	Robert Ferguson (Oedipus), Josephine Veasey (Jocasta), Hugh-Nigel Sheehan (Creon), John Tranter (Tiresias)	David Lloyd-Jones	Patrick Libby	Stefanos Lazaridis
1980-1981	Les mamelles de Tirésias	Poulenc	Kate Flowers (Thérèse), Stuart Harling (The Husband)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1978-9 production
1980-1981	Tosca	Puccini	Elizabeth Vaughan (Tosca), Kenneth Collins (Cavaradossi), Geoffrey Chard (Scarpia)	David Lloyd-Jones	Revival of 1979-80 production
1980-1981	The Magic Flute	Mozart	Adrian Martin (Tamino), Helen Walker (Pamina), Michael Lewis (Papageno), John Tranter (Sarastro), Margaret Haggart (Queen of the Night)	David Lloyd-Jones	Revival of 1978-9 production
1980-1981	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Tom McDonnell (Don Giovanni), Elizabeth Robson (Donna Anna), Felicity Palmer (Donna Elvira), Michael Rippon (Leporello), Robin Leggate (Don Ottavio)	David Lloyd-Jones	David Pountney	Maria Björnson
1980-1981	The Barber of Seville	Rossini	Michael Lewis (Figaro), Della Jones (Rosina), John Brecknock (Almaviva), Derek Hammond-Stroud (Dr Bartolo)	John Pryce-Jones	Patrick Libby	Frances Tempest Steve Addison
1980-1981	Der Freischütz	Weber	Robert Ferguson (Max), Sally Burgess/Bente Marcussen (Agathe), Malcolm Rivers (Caspar), Sandra Dugdale (Aennchen)	Clive Timms	Steven Pimlott	John Fraser

something new

Season	Opera	Composer	Principal cast	Conductor	Director	Designer
1979–1980	The Merry Widow	Lehár	Elizabeth Harwood (Hanna Glawari), David Hillman (Danilo), Bente Marcussen (Valencienne), Adrian Martin (Camille), Thomas Lawlor (Baron Zeta)	David Lloyd-Jones/ John Pryce-Jones	Wendy Toye	Bob Ringwood
1979–1980	Hansel and Gretel	Humperdinck	Fiona Kimm (Hansel), Kate Flowers (Gretel), Ann Howard (Witch)	David Parry	Revival of 1978–9 production
1979–1980	Carmen	Bizet	Gillian Knight/Ann Howard (Carmen), Robert Ferguson (Don José), Michael Lewis (Escamillo), Joy Roberts (Micaela)	Clive Timms	John Copley	Stefanos Lazaridis
1979–1980	Der Rosenkavalier	R Strauss	Lois McDonall (The Marschallin), Eiddwen Harrhy (Octavian), Laureen Livingstone (Sophie), Dennis Wicks (Baron Ochs)	David Lloyd-Jones	John Copley	David Walker
1979–1980	The Mines of Sulphur	Bennett	Fiona Kimm (Rosalind), Robert Ferguson (Bocconnion, Eric Garrett (Sherrin), Sally Burgess (Jenny), John Fryatt (Trim)	Clive Timms	Colin Graham	Alix Stone]
1979–1980	Nabucco	Verdi	Ludmilla Andrew (Abigaille), Camillo Meghor (Nabucco), John Tranter (Zaccaria)	Elgar Howarth	Steven Pimlott	Stefanos Lazaridis
1979–1980	A Village Romeo and Juliet	Delius	Adrian Martin (Sali), Laureen Livingstone (Vrenchen), Stuart Harling (The Dark Fiddler)	David Lloyd-Jones	Patrick Libby	John Fraser
1979–1980	Count Ory	Rossini	Graham Clark (Count Ory), Eiddwen Harrhy (Countess Adèle), Della Jones (Isolier), Russell Smythe (Raimbaud), Paul Hudson (Ory's Tutor)	David Lloyd-Jones	Anthony Besch	Peter Rice
1980–1981	Jenůfa	Janáček	Lorna Haywood (Jenůfa), Margaret Kingsley (Kostelnička), Robert Ferguson (Laca), Philip Mills (Števa)	David Lloyd-Jones	David Pountney	Maria Björnson
1980–1981	The Elixir of Love	Donizetti	Lillian Watson (Adina), Ryland Davies (Nemorino), Forbes Robinson (Dulcamara), Richard Jackson (Belcore)	Clive Timms	Michael Geliot	Michael Beaven
1980–1981	La traviata	Verdi	Elizabeth Vaughan (Violetta), Franco Bonanome (Alfredo), Michael Lewis (Germont)	Gabrielle Bellini	Revival of 1978–9 production
1980–1981	The Merry Widow	Lehár	Elizabeth Robson (Hanna Glawari), Christopher Booth-Jones (Danilo), Eirian James (Valencienne), Arthur Davies (Camille), Thomas Lawlor (Baron Zeta)	David Lloyd-Jones	Revival of 1979–80 production
1980–1981	The Tales of Hoffmann	Offenbach	David Hillman (Hoffmann), Joan Carden (Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta, Stella), Norman Bailey (Lindorf, Coppelius, Dr Miracle, Dapertutto)	David Lloyd-Jones	Anthony Besch	John Stoddart
1980–1981	La bohème	Puccini	Robert Ferguson (Rodolfo), Sally Burgess (Mimi), Terence Sharpe (Marcello), Bente Marcussen (Musetta)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1978–9 production
1980–1981	Oedipus rex	Stravinsky	Robert Ferguson (Oedipus), Josephine Veasey (Jocasta), Hugh-Nigel Sheehan (Creon), John Tranter (Tiresias)	David Lloyd-Jones	Patrick Libby	Stefanos Lazaridis
1980–1981	Les mamelles de Tirésias	Poulenc	Kate Flowers (Thérèse), Stuart Harling (The Husband)	Clive Timms	Revival of 1978–9 production
1980–1981	Tosca	Puccini	Elizabeth Vaughan (Tosca), Kenneth Collins (Cavaradossi), Geoffrey Chard (Scarpia)	David Lloyd-Jones	Revival of 1979–80 production
1980–1981	The Magic Flute	Mozart	Adrian Martin (Tamino), Helen Walker (Pamina), Michael Lewis (Papageno), John Tranter (Sarastro), Margaret Haggart (Queen of the Night)	David Lloyd-Jones	Revival of 1978–9 production
1980–1981	Don Giovanni	Mozart	Tom McDonnell (Don Giovanni), Elizabeth Robson (Donna Anna), Felicity Palmer (Donna Elvira), Michael Rippon (Leporello), Robin Leggate (Don Ottavio)	David Lloyd-Jones	David Pountney	Maria Björnson
1980–1981	The Barber of Seville	Rossini	Michael Lewis (Figaro), Della Jones (Rosina), John Brecknock (Almaviva), Derek Hammond-Stroud (Dr Bartolo)	John Pryce-Jones	Patrick Libby	Frances Tempest/ Steve Addison
1980–1981	Der Freischütz	Weber	Robert Ferguson (Max), Sally Burgess/Bente Marcussen (Agathe), Malcolm Rivers (Caspar), Sandra Dugdale (Aennchen)	Clive Timms	Steven Pimlott	John Fraser

Librarian quotes

Two of Larkin's colleagues at Hull University felt that his career as a librarian was in itself worthy of note. Douglas Dunn wrote "Librarianship became a profession through the examples set by notable librarians. Philip Larkin was such a librarian" and Brian Dyson called him "a great figure in post-war British librarianship". Having started out by running Wellington Public Library single-handed, Larkins soon developed an assurance beyond the norm. His boss at Belfast University, Graneek, said that he had "come increasingly to rely on Larkin's judgement ... I have delegated to him rather larger areas of responsibility than normally falls to the lot of a sub-librarian ... He has the ability to assess a problem, arrive at a decision and act upon it without delay, which is not too common among academic administrators." When Larkin took up his appointment in Hull the plans for a larger university library—the first to be built since the war—were already far advanced. Larkin made a great effort in just a few months to come to terms with these plans before they were placed before the University Grants Committee; he suggested a number of emendations, some major and structural, all of which were taken on board. The library was completed in 1969; ten years later Larkin took the equally ground-breaking decision to computerise the entire library stock. Richard Goodman has written: "with this step, Hull became the first library in Europe to install a GEAC system". In a general tone Goodman also wrote "it is as an administrator boss, committee man and arbitrator that Larkin revealed one of his strongest suits as a librarian. He treated his staff decently, and he motivated them. He did this with a combination of efficiency, high standards, humour and compassion. Those who have left written accounts of their time at Hull have said he was an excellent librarian and a very caring boss". In his articel in Larkin at Sixty Barry Bloomfield noted that Larkin "pioneered new techniques and introduced methods which have been copied in other academic libraries in the United Kingdom". During his thirty years as Librarian the stock sextrupled, and the budget expanded from £4,500 to £448,500.

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His colleague Brian Dyson goes so far as to call him "a great figure in post-war British librarianship" (Dyson in TMAL, ix).

"Librarianship became a profession through the examples set by notable librarians", fellow poet and colleague Douglas Dunn wrote. "Philip Larkin was such a librarian" (Dunn in TMAL, viii).

It might well be said that the freedom and responsibility given to Larkin so early in his career helped provide him with the extraordinary assurance he showed years later at the University of Hull where his management challenges were truly daunting. Not content, as his predecessor was, to let things remain as they were, the young Larkin began to change them:

Graneek actually placed the advertisement for the job on Larkin's desk. He told Hull that he had:

come increasingly to rely on Larkin's judgement ... / have delegated to him rather larger areas of responsibility than normally falls to the lot of a sub-librarian ... He has the ability to assess a problem, arrive at a decision and act upon it without delay, which is not too common among academic administrators. (Motion, 245)

the most urgent task facing Larkin on arrival in Hull was to familiarise himself with the plans "already at an advanced stage" - for a new library building, one of the first to be built in post-war Britain. Since the plans had to be submitted to the University Grants Committee (the funding body) by December, the matter was pressing. Larkin had no experience of the building of new libraries, nor had anyone else, not even architects, since no university libraries had been built in the United Kingdom since before the war. Since he realized this new library would have a strong influence on nearly every aspect of his work, he felt he had no alternative but to study the plans in depth and grapple with them alone.

What Larkin found was a two-part plan for the building of the library. The first part (Stage I) was to consist of a three-storey administrative building with stacks and reading rooms. Stage II, to be built some years later, was planned as a tall stacks building to be connected to the first. He quickly saw that "when the two stages were complete, readers and books would be separated from each other by the central administrative block" (Motion, 253). He took the rather bold step of recommending to the University that this be altered. They were impressed with his presentation and reasoning

In 1960 he published a detailed report on the new library in the Library Association Record (LAR 42, no. 6, 185-189). It is a meticulous presentation of the plan and workings of a major new university library and shows Larkin's complete familiarity with every function of the new building.

Just a glance at the plans, with the accompanying table identifying the various areas and departments, leaves an indelible impression of the complexity of a library of this size. Larkin's pride and modesty in the accomplishment are to be seen in his account of the history of the construction of the new library (part of an overall history of the library he wrote on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary) and in his report of the Queen Mother's dedication of Stage I in June 1960 (ALS-S, 5-9). In fact, all the documents relating to the library's construction still make worthy reading and could well be assembled to create a casebook

Indeed, it is as an administrator boss, committee man and arbitrator that Larkin revealed one of his strongest suits as a librarian. He treated his staff decently, and he motivated them. He did this with a combination of efficiency, high standards, humour and. compassion. Those who have left written accounts of their time at Hull have said he was an excellent librarian and a very caring boss

Edwin Dawes, Chairman of the Library Committee from 1974 to 1987 observed:

Anyone who might have held the notion that Philip was a fey, otherwordly poet would have had such ideas ruthlessly dispelled on first contact at one of these briefing sessions. His mastery of all aspects of library operation ... was striking, and his sense of political timing for committees astute. (Dawes in PL, 20)

Larkin's influence as a librarian extended beyond the boundaries of Hull. As a member of the Standing Committee of National and University Libraries (SCONUL), he attended its conferences, and served on its committees. One of his most passionate pleas to the British library establishment was to keep contemporary British writers' manuscripts and papers in England.

As early as 1961 he alerted SCONUL to the indifference of British libraries to the loss of manuscripts of contemporary British writers to foreign bidders, usually American libraries. Stimulated by this warning, the Arts Council initiated a National Manuscript Collection of Contemporary Poets (later Writers) ... and from 1972 to 1979 Larkin was its Chairman. (Brennan in ALS-S. 40)

During the seventies and particularly the eighties, Larkin was thrown dramatically into the modem age. He faced what have come to be probably the two most pressing issues in librarianship in recent years: computers and cutbacks. The first he met, after some delay, with surprising ingenuity and innovativeness surprising, perhaps for a man whose poetry hearkens in a Hardy-esque way to an earlier, more traditional England, and who harboured a deep mistrust of computers. But in fact, that is what he did. In 1979, the library decided to purchase a GEAC system - made by a Canadian company which today continues to provide systems for libraries - and to put the library's collection on-line. With this step, Hull became the first library in Europe to install a GEAC system. Thus, having directed between 1955 and 1969 the construction of the new Library at Hull, a decade later Larkin presided over its second major transformation, namely the conversion of the entire stock to machine readable form. Once this decision had been taken, he was anxious that the on-line catalogue should be as accurate and as easy to use as the card version, as well as being more versatile

Once the decision was made to convert, Larkin made several concomitant decisions which proved to be of lasting value. One was "to create a database of fairly full catalogue records, even though brief citations would have been adequate for circulation-related activities" (Wallace in TMAL, 82). (Remember, we are speaking of 640,000 records. This is a librarian working here.) By April 1982, the transfer of the entries was complete, and the system was operating fully. To have done this with a staff "almost entirely without experience of automation" (Brennan in ALS-S, 26) all the while providing much the same services expected of a university library, was no small feat.

In 1985, the year of his thirtieth anniversary at Hull, the Library had altered beyond all recognition from the one he took over in 1955. It was now thoroughly modern and recognised as one of the best University libraries in the United Kingdom. The stock had increased from the 1955 number of 124,000 to 750,000 volumes. The budget had increased from £4,500 to £448,500 (Brennan in ALS-S, 39). Larkin was in large measure responsible for this. He had also, as Bloomfield notes, "pioneered new techniques and introduced methods which have been copied in other academic libraries in the United Kingdom" (Bloomfield in Larkin at 60, 50).

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The operas of Verdi (book)

The operas of Verdi is a book in three volumes by Julian Budden

• The Operas of Verdi, Volume 1 (3rd edition), New York: Oxford University Press, 1983 ISBN 0-19-816261-8
• The Operas of Verdi, Volume 2 (3rd edition), New York: Oxford University Press, 1983 ISBN 0-19-816262-6
• The Operas of Verdi, Volume 3 (3rd edition), New York: Oxford University Press, 1983 ISBN 0-19-816263-4

Mr Larkin's Awkward Day

Mr Larkin's Awkward Day was a comedy radio play by Chris Harrald, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 29 April 2008.

In 1957 Philip Larkin's friend Robert Conquest, of the group known as The Movement, played a practical joke on him. Mr Larkin's Awkward Day tells the true story of the joke, one that had Larkin fearing he might be sent to prison.

In September 1957, a pre-fame Larkin prepares for another ordinary day and picks up his post. But one letter stands out: an official-looking envelope embossed with the words Scotland Yard. The letter reveals that there is an ongoing investigation into him, conducted under the Obscene Publications Act 1921. The letter informs Larkin that he might have to appear in court since it is alleged he has been buying pornography—and he knows all too well that he has. Larkin begins to fret about what to do—should he destroy the evidence under the gaze of a watchful landlady before the police arrive? Eventually, he goes to his librarian job. As he leaves the library he freezes when Inspector Cough introduces himself and says that he is very interested in Larkin's literary tastes. Larkin begins to defend himself until it transpires that the men have crossed wires—one fears he is being quizzed about purchasing dubious magazines, the other thinks he is having a friendly chat about literature. Finally, Larkin prises himself free from the Inspector to dash off to a meeting with his solicitors, who ask him what journals he has been buying. After he returns to his lodgings his landlady knocks on Larkin's door—someone wants him on the 'phone. It's Larkin's historian friend, Bob Conquest, and he is laughing. He asks Larkin about the silly joke he played on him, the embossed envelope and so on. When it becomes clear that Larkin was completely taken in, Conquest offers to pay his solicitors' costs.

Accumulated quotes, directed by entries in the indexes

Motion: PL: Criticisms of

Motion 1993, p.281: The poet Charles Tomlinson, writing the in journal Essays in Criticism in April, had attacked Larkin's 'tenderly nursed sense of defeat' in an article headed 'The Middlebrow Muse'

Motion 1993, p.328: During the spring of 1962 the then much-respected literary critic A. Alvarez, compiling The New Poetry for Penguin, had attacked Larkin in his Introduction, charging him with 'gentility', neo-Georgian pastoralism, and a failure to deal with the violent extremes of contemporary life.

Motion: PL: The Less Deceived reviews

Motion 1993, p.269: Then, on 22 December, The Times changed everything; it included The Less Deceived in its round-up of the year's outstanding books ... Other reviews quickly followed. The TLS was anonymously cautious but encouraging; the New Statesman was enthusiastic; and Donald Davie, Anne Ridler and Roy Fuller, among others, produced praising pieces later in the spring. For the rest of 1956 and into the following year, articles and appreciations followed at regular intervals. Most of them concentrated ... on the the book's emotional impact and its sophisticated, witty language

Motion: PL: The Whitsun Weddings reception

Motion 1993, p.343: Reviewers were quick to identify if not always to appreciate [its] qualities. A. Alvarez ... writing in the Observer, felt the world Larkin described was too circumscribed and 'commonplace'. To those who felt the poems made the familiar strange (like Betjeman in the Listener, Enright in the New Statesman and Thwaite, anonymously, in the TLS) its acheivement was correspondingly great.

Motion: PL: The North Ship reissue and reviews

Motion 1993, p.358–60: Most critics were content to see it as an interesting stage in the evolution of a poet they admired. John Carey in the New Stateman, Christopher Ricks in the Sunday Times, and Edmund Blunden in the Daily Telegraph were all appreciative. Elizabeth Jennings in the Spectator went one better by welcoming the poems themselves, as well as the information they gave about Larkin's development. 'Few will question' she wrote 'the instrinsic value of The North Ship or the importance of its being reprinted now. It is good to know that Larkin could write so well when still so young.'

Motion: The North Ship

Motion 1993, p.132: Its only contemporary reviewer (in the Coventry Evening Telegraph) ... said 'Mr Larkin has an inner vision that must be sount for with care. His recondite imagery is counched in phrases that make up in a kind of wistful hinted beauty what they lack in lucidy. Mr Larkin's readers must at oresent be confined to a small circle. Perhaps his work will gain wider appeal as his genius becomes more mature?'

Motion 1993, p.191: Three months later he had a rare drop of encouragement. The poet and critic Charles Madge wrote to compliment him on the poems in The North Ship which he had recently read.

Motion: The Less Deceived

Motion 1993, p.275: June 1956, TES: As native as a Whitstable oyster, as sharp an expression of contemporary thought and experience as anything written in out time, as immediate in its appeal as the lyric poetry of an earlier day, it may well be regarded by posterity as a poetic monument that marks the triumph over the formless mystifications of the last twenty years. With Larkin poetry is on its way back to the middlebrow public.

Motion 1993, p.291: T. S. Eliot had seen The Less Deceived and told [Charles] Monteith, 'Yes — [Larkin] often makes words do what he wants.'

Motion 1993, p.328: The Less Deceived was respectfully but quietly reviewed [in America] ... Robert Lowell declared, 'No post-war poetry has so caught the moment, and caught it without straining after its ephemera. It's a hesitant, groping mumble, resolutely experienced, resolutely perfect in its artistic methods.'

Motion: The Whitsun Weddings

[nothing additional to above]

Motion: High Windows

Motion 1993, p.444: Most of the book's reviewers agreed [that it was his best yet]. Whether they were friends (like Amis, writing in the Observer), or aficionados like Alan Brownjohn (who was soon to publish a short study of Larkin's work) in the New Statesman, or unaffiliated but enthusiastic critics like Clive James in Encounter, they were impressed by the book's mixture of impatience and fastidiousness.

Bradford: The North Ship

[Nothing]

Bradford: The Less Deceived

Bradford 2005, p.144 But just before Christmas The Times included it, with generous words of praise, in its books-of-the-year list. This was intriguing, given that no one else had even acknowledged its existence, and this sense of a significant new figure arriveing unannounced prompted and often informed a sudden rush to review the collection following the new year. Anthony Hartley, who had recently invented the Movement, wrote in the Spectator that he saw it as 'in the running for the best [poetry collection] published in this country since the war'; G. S. Fraser, ally of Hartley and editor of one of the founding Movement volumes, contended that Larkin could now be seen 'to exemplify everything that is good in this "new movement" and none of its faults'; and the anon. reviewer in the TLS found him to be now established as 'a poet of quite exceptional importance'. F. W. Bateson in the new academic journal Essays in Criticism contended that The Less Deceived could spearhead a return of serious poetry from the sequestered impenetrability of Modernism to the approval and appreciation of the broader reading public — 'Come buy!' he urged them.

Bradford 2005, p.144 David Wright in Encounter ... denounced the volume as attempting to replace the avant-garde element of Modernism-and-after with the 'palsy of playing safe'. Most famously there was Charles Tomlinson's 1957 Essays in Criticism piece 'The Middlebrow Muse', in which he accused the Movement writers in general and Larkin in particular of 'middle-cum-lowbrowism', 'the suburban mental ratio' and 'parochialism'.

Bradford 2005, p.145 In June [1956] the TES ... celebrated him as contributing to 'the clarity over the formless mystifications of the last twenty years'.

Bradford 2005, p.202 A. Alvarez ... regarded ... Larkin ... as insufferably parochial in outlook and manner

Bradford: The Whitsun Wedding

Bradford 2005, p. 202 Alvarez in the Observer followed up his New Poetry diatribe abd accused Larkin of dwelling upon the ordinariness of England in a way that suited the drab circumspection of his subject, but the doubters were outnumbered by the celebrants, most memorably John Betjeman. He had become, wrote B., 'the John Clare of the building estates'. More significantly he had 'closed the gap between poeyrt and the public which the experiments and obscurity of the last fifty years have done so much to widen' ... Christopher Ricks in his NYRB review ... found a perfect 'refinement of self-conciousness, usually flawless in its execution' and argued that poetry had become reconnected with the lives of its potential readers, 'the world of all of us, the place where, in the end, we find our happiness, or not at all'. The volume had ... established L. as 'the best poet England now has'

Bradford: High Windows

Bradford 2005, p.238 The reviews were generally favourable, with the notable exception of Robert Nye in The Times, but each reflected the difficulty of writing a 500–1000-word piece on a collection which, while short, compelled fascination and confusion. The admiration for the volume was genuine for most reviewers, but one also senses anxiety in their prose, particularly on how to describe the individual genius at work in poems such as 'Annus Mirabilis', 'The Explosion' and 'The Building' and at the same time explain why each is so radically different. Nye overcomes this problem by treating the differences as ineffective masks for a consistently nasty presence.

Material reordered by subject

The North Ship

Motion 1993, p.132: Its only contemporary reviewer (in the Coventry Evening Telegraph) ... said 'Mr Larkin has an inner vision that must be sount for with care. His recondite imagery is counched in phrases that make up in a kind of wistful hinted beauty what they lack in lucidy. Mr Larkin's readers must at oresent be confined to a small circle. Perhaps his work will gain wider appeal as his genius becomes more mature?'

Motion 1993, p.191: Three months later he had a rare drop of encouragement. The poet and critic Charles Madge wrote to compliment him on the poems in The North Ship which he had recently read.

Motion 1993, p.358–60: Most critics were content to see it as an interesting stage in the evolution of a poet they admired. John Carey in the New Stateman, Christopher Ricks in the Sunday Times, and Edmund Blunden in the Daily Telegraph were all appreciative. Elizabeth Jennings in the Spectator went one better by welcoming the poems themselves, as well as the information they gave about Larkin's development. 'Few will question' she wrote 'the instrinsic value of The North Ship or the importance of its being reprinted now. It is good to know that Larkin could write so well when still so young.'

The Less Deceived

Motion 1993, p.269: Then, on 22 December, The Times changed everything; it included The Less Deceived in its round-up of the year's outstanding books ... Other reviews quickly followed. The TLS was anonymously cautious but encouraging; the New Statesman was enthusiastic; and Donald Davie, Anne Ridler and Roy Fuller, among others, produced praising pieces later in the spring. For the rest of 1956 and into the following year, articles and appreciations followed at regular intervals. Most of them concentrated ... on the the book's emotional impact and its sophisticated, witty language

Bradford 2005, p.144 But just before Christmas The Times included it, with generous words of praise, in its books-of-the-year list. This was intriguing, given that no one else had even acknowledged its existence, and this sense of a significant new figure arriveing unannounced prompted and often informed a sudden rush to review the collection following the new year. Anthony Hartley, who had recently invented the Movement, wrote in the Spectator that he saw it as 'in the running for the best [poetry collection] published in this country since the war'; G. S. Fraser, ally of Hartley and editor of one of the founding Movement volumes, contended that Larkin could now be seen 'to exemplify everything that is good in this "new movement" and none of its faults'; and the anon. reviewer in the TLS found him to be now established as 'a poet of quite exceptional importance'. F. W. Bateson in the new academic journal Essays in Criticism contended that The Less Deceived could spearhead a return of serious poetry from the sequestered impenetrability of Modernism to the approval and appreciation of the broader reading public — 'Come buy!' he urged them.

Bradford 2005, p.144 David Wright in Encounter ... denounced the volume as attempting to replace the avant-garde element of Modernism-and-after with the 'palsy of playing safe'. Most famously there was Charles Tomlinson's 1957 Essays in Criticism piece 'The Middlebrow Muse', in which he accused the Movement writers in general and Larkin in particular of 'middle-cum-lowbrowism', 'the suburban mental ratio' and 'parochialism'.

Motion 1993, p.281: The poet Charles Tomlinson, writing the in journal Essays in Criticism in April, had attacked Larkin's 'tenderly nursed sense of defeat' in an article headed 'The Middlebrow Muse'

Bradford 2005, p.145 In June [1956] the TES ... celebrated him as contributing to 'the clarity over the formless mystifications of the last twenty years'.

Motion 1993, p.328: During the spring of 1962 the then much-respected literary critic A. Alvarez, compiling The New Poetry for Penguin, had attacked Larkin in his Introduction, charging him with 'gentility', neo-Georgian pastoralism, and a failure to deal with the violent extremes of contemporary life.

Bradford 2005, p.202 A. Alvarez ... regarded ... Larkin ... as insufferably parochial in outlook and manner

Motion 1993, p.291: T. S. Eliot had seen The Less Deceived and told [Charles] Monteith, 'Yes — [Larkin] often makes words do what he wants.'

The Whitsun Weddings

Motion 1993, p.275: June 1956, TES: As native as a Whitstable oyster, as sharp an expression of contemporary thought and experience as anything written in out time, as immediate in its appeal as the lyric poetry of an earlier day, it may well be regarded by posterity as a poetic monument that marks the triumph over the formless mystifications of the last twenty years. With Larkin poetry is on its way back to the middlebrow public.

Motion 1993, p.328: The Less Deceived was respectfully but quietly reviewed [in America] ... Robert Lowell declared, 'No post-war poetry has so caught the moment, and caught it without straining after its ephemera. It's a hesitant, groping mumble, resolutely experienced, resolutely perfect in its artistic methods.'

Motion 1993, p.343: Reviewers were quick to identify if not always to appreciate [its] qualities. A. Alvarez ... writing in the Observer, felt the world Larkin described was too circumscribed and 'commonplace'. To those who felt the poems made the familiar strange (like Betjeman in the Listener, Enright in the New Statesman and Thwaite, anonymously, in the TLS) its acheivement was correspondingly great.

Bradford 2005, p. 202 Alvarez in the Observer followed up his New Poetry diatribe abd accused Larkin of dwelling upon the ordinariness of England in a way that suited the drab circumspection of his subject, but the doubters were outnumbered by the celebrants, most memorably John Betjeman. He had become, wrote B., 'the John Clare of the building estates'. More significantly he had 'closed the gap between poeyrt and the public which the experiments and obscurity of the last fifty years have done so much to widen' ... Christopher Ricks in his NYRB review ... found a perfect 'refinement of self-conciousness, usually flawless in its execution' and argued that poetry had become reconnected with the lives of its potential readers, 'the world of all of us, the place where, in the end, we find our happiness, or not at all'. The volume had ... established L. as 'the best poet England now has'

High Windows

Motion 1993, p.444: Most of the book's reviewers agreed [that it was his best yet]. Whether they were friends (like Amis, writing in the Observer), or aficionados like Alan Brownjohn (who was soon to publish a short study of Larkin's work) in the New Statesman, or unaffiliated but enthusiastic critics like Clive James in Encounter, they were impressed by the book's mixture of impatience and fastidiousness.

Bradford 2005, p.238 The reviews were generally favourable, with the notable exception of Robert Nye in The Times, but each reflected the difficulty of writing a 500–1000-word piece on a collection which, while short, compelled fascination and confusion. The admiration for the volume was genuine for most reviewers, but one also senses anxiety in their prose, particularly on how to describe the individual genius at work in poems such as 'Annus Mirabilis', 'The Explosion' and 'The Building' and at the same time explain why each is so radically different. Nye overcomes this problem by treating the differences as ineffective masks for a consistently nasty presence.

First drafts of paragraphs to be pasted into Philip Larkin, as opening of ‘Legacy’ section

The North Ship

When first published in 1945, The North Ship received just one review, in the Coventry Evening Telegraph, which concluded “Mr Larkin has an inner vision that must be sought for with care. His recondite imagery is counched in phrases that make up in a kind of wistful hinted beauty what they lack in lucidy. Mr Larkin's readers must at present be confined to a small circle. Perhaps his work will gain wider appeal as his genius becomes more mature?” A few years later, though, the poet and critic Charles Madge came across the book and wrote to Larkin with his compliments. When the collection was reissued in 1966 it was presented as a work of juvenilia, and the reviews were gentle and respectful; the most forthright praise came from Elizabeth Jennings in the Spectator: “Few will question the instrinsic value of The North Ship or the importance of its being reprinted now. It is good to know that Larkin could write so well when still so young.”

The Less Deceived

The Less Deceived was first noticed by The Times, who included it in its list of Books of 1955. In its wake many other reviews followed; “most of them concentrated ... on the the book's emotional impact and its sophisticated, witty language” (Andrew Motion). The Spectator felt the collection was “in the running for the best published in this country since the war”; G. S. Fraser, referring to Larkin's perceived association with The Movement felt that Larkin exemplified “everything that is good in this ‘new movement’ and none of its faults”. The TLS called him “a poet of quite exceptional importance” and in June 1956 the Times Educational Supplement was fulsome: “As native as a Whitstable oyster, as sharp an expression of contemporary thought and experience as anything written in out time, as immediate in its appeal as the lyric poetry of an earlier day, it may well be regarded by posterity as a poetic monument that marks the triumph over the formless mystifications of the last twenty years. With Larkin poetry is on its way back to the middlebrow public.” Reviewing the book in America the poet Robert Lowell wrote, “No post-war poetry has so caught the moment, and caught it without straining after its ephemera. It's a hesitant, groping mumble, resolutely experienced, resolutely perfect in its artistic methods.”

In time, though, there was a reaction: David Wright wrote in Encounter that The Less Deceived suffered from the “palsy of playing safe”; in April 1957 Charles Tomlinson wrote a piece for the journal Essays in Criticism, "The Middlebrow Muse", attacking The Movement's poets for their “middle-cum-lowbrowism”, “suburban mental ratio” and “parochialism” — Larkin had a “tenderly nursed sense of defeat”. In 1962 A. Alvarez, the compilor of an anthology entitled The New Poetry, famously accused Larkin of “‘gentility’, neo-Georgian pastoralism, and a failure to deal with the violent extremes of contemporary life.” (Motion)

The Whitsun Weddings

When The Whitsun Weddings was released Alvarez continued his attacks in a review in the Observer, complaining of the “drab circumspection” of Larkin's “commonplace” subject-matter. However, praise outweighed criticism. John Betjeman felt Larkin had “closed the gap between poetry and the public which the experiments and obscurity of the last fifty years have done so much to widen”. In the New York Review of Books Christopher Ricks wrote of the “refinement of self-conciousness, usually flawless in its execution” and Larkin's summoning up of “the world of all of us, the place where, in the end, we find our happiness, or not at all”. He felt Larkin to be “the best poet England now has.”

High Windows

Of High Windows Richard Bradford writes “the reviews were generally favourable, with the notable exception of Robert Nye in The Times, but each reflected the difficulty of writing a 500–1000-word piece on a collection which, while short, compelled fascination and confusion. The admiration for the volume was genuine for most reviewers, but one also senses anxiety in their prose, particularly on how to describe the individual genius at work in poems such as 'Annus Mirabilis', 'The Explosion' and 'The Building' and at the same time explain why each is so radically different. Nye overcomes this problem by treating the differences as ineffective masks for a consistently nasty presence.”

Larkin at Sixty

To celebrate Larkin's 60th birthday in 1982, Faber and Faber published Larkin at Sixty. The editor was Anthony Thwaite, and contributors included John Betjeman, Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Douglas Dunn, Andrew Motion, Alan Bennett, Donald Mitchell, John Gross, Clive James, Alan Brownjohn, Christopher Ricks, Seamus Heaney, Peter Porter and Gavin Ewart.

In February 1982 Larkin turned sixty. This was marked most significantly by a collection of essays Larkin at Sixty edited by Anthony Thwaite and published by Faber and Faber. There were also two television programmes: a South Bank Show presented by Melvyn Bragg — to which Larkin made off-camera contributions — and a half-hour special on the BBC, devised and presented by the Labour Shadow Cabinet Minister Roy Hattersley.

The contributors were:

• Noel Hughes, Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest and Harry Chambers, on Larkin as they knew him
• Charles Monteith, on publishing Larkin
• B. C. Bloomfield (Larkin's bibliographer) and Douglas Dunn, on his work as a librarian
• Andrew Motion, on poetry and Larkin's poems
• Alan Bennett, mostly about himself
• Donald Mitchell and Clive James, on All What Jazz
• John Gross, on The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse
• George Hartley, Christopher Ricks and Seamus Heaney, on the poems
• Alan Brownjohn, on the novels
• John Betjeman, Peter Porter and Gavin Ewart, who contributed poems of their own dedicated to Larkin

In amongst memoires by friends and colleagues such as Kingsley Amis, Noel Hughes and Charles Monteith and dedicatory poems by John Betjeman, Peter Porter and Gavin Ewart, the various strands of Larkin's output were analysed by critics and fellow poets: Andrew Motion, Christopher Ricks and Seamus Heaney looked at the poems, Alan Brownjohn wrote on the novels and Donald Mitchell and Clive James looked at his jazz criticism

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http://www.harlequin-agency.co.uk/index.php?page=12&action=repertoire&id=50&type=operatic

Poem title	Completion date	Book
Absences	1950-11-28	The Less Deceived

Britten Balstrode Peter Grimes

Donizetti Dulcamara L'Elisir d'Amore

Gounod Mephistopheles Faust

Mozart Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte

Masetto Don Giovanni (recorded)

Leporello Don Giovanni (recorded)

Don Giovanni Don Giovanni (recorded)

Sprecher Die Zauberflöte

Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro (recorded)

Offenbach Four Male Roles Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Puccini Gianni Schicchi Gianni Schicchi

Scarpia Tosca

Sharpless Madame Butterfly

Richard Strauss Spirit Messenger Die Frau ohne Schatten

Jochanaan Salome (recorded)

Sondheim Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd

Stravinsky Nick Shadow The Rake's Progress (recorded)

Creon Oedipus Rex (recorded)

Verdi Falstaff Falstaff (recorded)

Ford Falstaff

Wagner Donner Das Rheingold

Wolfram Tannhäuser

Wotan Die Walküre

Wotan Das Rheingold

Der Fliegende Holländer Holländer

Operatic Repertoire

All the roles that Bryn Terfel has performed operatically

Composer	Opera	Role	In repertoire	Recorded
Britten	Peter Grimes	Balstrode	[not known]	No
Donizetti	L'Elisir d'Amore	Dulcamara	2001	No
Gounod	Faust	Mephistopheles	2004	No
Mozart	Cosi fan tutte	Guglielmo	1991	No
Mozart	Don Giovanni	Masetto	1992	Yes
Mozart	Don Giovanni	Leporello	1991	Yes
Mozart	Don Giovanni	Don Giovanni	1999 –	Yes
Mozart	Die Zauberflöte	Sprecher	[not known]	No
Mozart	Le Nozze di Figaro	Figaro	1991 – 2008	Yes
Offenbach	Les Contes d'Hoffmann	Four Male Roles	2000	No
Puccini	Gianni Schicchi	Gianni Schicchi	2007	No
Puccini	Tosca	Scarpia	2006	No
Puccini	Madame Butterfly	Sharpless	1996	No
Richard Strauss	Die Frau ohne Schatten	Spirit Messenger	[not known]	No
Richard Strauss	Salome	Jochanaan	1993	Yes
Sondheim	Sweeney Todd	Sweeney Todd	2002 –	No
Stravinsky	The Rake's Progress	Nick Shadow	1996 – 2000	Yes
Stravinsky	Oedipus Rex	Creon	[not known]	Yes
Verdi	Falstaff	Falstaff	1999 –	Yes
Verdi	Falstaff	Ford	1992	No
Wagner	Das Rheingold	Donner	[not known]	No
Wagner	Das Rheingold	Wotan	2005 –	No
Wagner	Die Walküre	Wotan	2005 –	No
Wagner	Tannhäuser	Wolfram	1998	No
Wagner	Der Fliegende Holländer	Der Fliegende Holländer	2006 –	No

Keenlyside rep - getting into alphabetical order

• Winston Smith in 1984
• Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos
• Ubalde in Armide
• Figaro and Fiorello in The Barber of Seville
• Billy Budd and Donald in Billy Budd
• Marcello and Schaunard in La bohème
• Catechiste in Briséïs
• Mercurio in La Calisto
• Olivier in Capriccio
• Morales in Carmen

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• Dandini in La Cenerentola
• Guglielmo in Così fan tutte
• Abayaldos in Dom Sébastien
• Posa and Flemish Deputy in Don Carlos
• Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni
• Belcore in L'elisir d'amore
• Onegin in Eugene Onegin
• Ford in Falstaff
• Valentin and Wagner in Faust
• Prisoner in Fidelio
• Falke in Die Fledermaus
• Hamlet in Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet
• Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride
• Macbeth in Macbeth
• Gendarme/Le directeur in Les Mamelles de Tirésias
• Lescaut in Manon Lescaut
• Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro
• Nightwatchman in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
• Danilo in The Merry Widow
• Orfeo in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, favola in musica
• Montano in Verdi's Otello
• Silvio in Pagliacci
• Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande
• Ned Keene in Peter Grimes
• Prince Yeletski in The Queen of Spades
• Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia
• Rigoletto in Rigoletto
• Arthus in Le Roi Arthus
• Wolfram in Tannhäuser
• Prospero in The Tempest
• Giorgio Germont in Traviata
• Steersman in Tristan und Isolde
• Ping in Turandot
• Andrei in Prokofiev's War and Peace
• Wozzeck in Wozzeck
• Papageno in Die Zauberflöte

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Douglas Murray (author)

Please may I draw your attention, if you don't already know about it, to this page which gives the rules on biographies of living people? It in turn will direct you to some important Wikipedia policies and guidelines, especially:

• Neutral point of view (NPOV)
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On a slightly different note, if you follow the link at the bottom of the Douglas Murray page to the Centre for Social Cohesion you'll see plenty to show that he's still alive and kicking. Yours,

Swaledale

Swaledale

Swaledale is one of the northernmost dales in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Northern England. It is the dale—valley—of the River Swale on the east side of the Pennines in North Yorkshire.

Geographical overview

Swaledale starts to the east of Nine Standards Rigg, the prominent ridge with nine ancient tall cairns on the Cumbria–Yorkshire boundary which forms part of the main East–Weat Watershed of Northern England. To the west lies Kirkby Stephen and the Westmoreland Limestone Plateau.

The moors on the eastern flank of the Rigg's moorland become more and more concave as they descend, to become the narrow valley sides of upper Swaledale at the small village of Keld. From there, the valley runs briefly south then turns east at Thwaite to broaden progressively as it passes Muker, Gunnerside and Reeth. The Pennine valley ends at the market town of Richmond, where an important medieval castle still watches the important ford from the top of a cliff. Below Richmond, the valley sides flatten out and the Swale flows across lowland farmland to meet the Ure just east of Boroughbridge at a point known as Swale Nab. The Ure becomes the Ouse, and eventually (on merging with the Trent) the Humber.

From the North, Arkengarthdale and its river the Arkle Beck join Swaledale at Reeth. To the south, Wensleydale, home of the famous Wensleydale cheese, runs parallel with Swaledale. The two dales are separated by a ridge including Great Shunner Fell, and joined by the road over Buttertubs Pass.

Physical character

Swaledale at East Applegarth, near Richmond.

Swaledale is a typical limestone Yorkshire dale, with its narrow valley-bottom road, green meadows and fellside fields, white sheep and white stone walls on the glacier-formed valley sides, and darker moorland skyline. The upper parts of the dale are particularly striking because of its large old limestone field barns and its profusion of wild flowers. The latter are thanks to the return to the practice of leaving the cutting of grass for hay or silage until wild plants have had a chance to seed. Occasionally visible from the valley bottom road are the slowly-fading fellside scars of the 18th and 19th century lead mining industry. Ruined stone mine buildings remain, taking on the same colours as the landscape into which they are crumbling.

Swaledale is home to many small but beautiful waterfalls, such as Cotter Force, Kidson Force and Catrake Force.

Agriculture and industry

Sheep-farming has always been central to economic life in Swaledale, which has lent its name to a breed of round-horned sheep. Traditional Swaledale products are woollens and Swaledale cheese, which was formerly made from ewe’s milk. These days it is made from cow’s milk. During the 19th century, a major industry in the area was lead mining.

Current human activities

Today, tourism has become important, and Swaledale attracts thousands of visitors a year. It is very popular with walkers, particularly because the Coast to Coast Walk passes along it. Unlike Wensleydale it has no large settlements on the scale of Hawse or Thirsk, nor an obvious tourist hook such as former's connection with James Herriot, and so, like Coverdale, its enjoys a quieter tone, especially as it is more remote compared to, say, Wharfedale, which is much further south and easily accessible from the West Yorkshire metropolis.

In May and June every year, Swaledale hosts the two-week long Swaledale Festival, which combines a celebration of small-scale music and a programme of guided walks.

Quotes from Hitchings' Dr Johnson's Dictionary

"When Boswell came to this part of Johnson's life, more than three decades later, he pronounced that 'the world contemplated with wonder so stupendous a work acheived by one man, while other countries had thought such undertakings fit only for whole academies'."

"Still, the Dictionary was enthusiastically written up in important periodicals such as the London Magazine and—none too surprisingly—the Gentleman's Magazine. In the latter it received an eight-page notice".

"Of the less positive assessments the only properly judicious one came from Adam Smith in the pro-Whig Edinburgh Review ... he wished that Johnson 'had oftener passed his own censure upon those words which are not of approved use, though sometimes to be met with in authors of no mean name'. Furthermore, Johnson's approach was not 'sufficiently grammatical'".

"The Dictionary was considered, from the moment of its inception, to be Johnson's, and from the time of its completion it was Johnson's Dictionary—his book and his property, his monument, his memorial."

"The image of Johnson racing to write Rasselas to pay for his mother's funeral, romantic hyperbole though it is, conveys the precariousness of his existence, almost four years after his work on the Dictionary was done. His financial uncertainties continued. He gave up the house in Gough Square in March 1759, probably for lack of funds ... Yet, just as Johnson was plunging into another trough of despondency, the reputation of the Dictionary at last brought reward ... in July 1762 Johnson was granted a state pension of £300 a year by the twenty-four-year-old monarch, Geroge III ... The pension did not make him rich, but it ensured he would no longer have to grub around for the odd guinea."

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"In its reduced format the Dictionary became an instrument of cultural imperialsim. Johnson's version of Englishness was widely exported."

"In his sparkling history of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester assers of its eighteenth-century predecessor that 'by the end of the century every educated household had, or had access to, the great book. So firmly established did it swiftly become that any request for "The Dictionary" would bring forth Johnson and none other.' 'One asked for The Dictionary,' writes Winchester, 'much as one might demand The Bible.'"

"The influence of the Dictionary was sweeping. Johnson established both a methodology for how dictionaries should be put together and a paradigm for how entries should be presented. Anyone who sought to create a dictionary, post-Johnson, did so in his shadow."

"From an early stage there were noisy detractors. Perhaps the loudest of them was John Horne Tooke ... Not content to pronounce it 'imperfect and faulty', he complained that it was 'one of the most idle performances ever offered to the public', that its author 'possessed not one single requisite for the undertaking', that its grammatical and historical parts were 'most truly contemptible performances', and that 'nearly one third ... is as much the language of the Hottentots as of the English'."

"Horace Warpole summed up for the unbelievers when he pronounced at the end of the eighteenth century, 'I cannot imagine that Dr Johnson's reputation will be very lasting.' His dictionary was 'a surprising work for one man', but 'the task is too much for one man, and ... a society should alone pretend to publish a standard dictionary.' Warpole's reservations notwithstanding, the admirers out-numbered the detractors, and the reputation of the Dictionary was repeatedly boosted by other philologists, lexicographers, educationalists and word detectives."

"Furthermore, Johnson's influence extended beyond Britain and beyond English. The president of the Florentine Accademia declared that the Dictionary would be 'a perpetual Monument of Fame to the Author, an Honour to his own Country in particular, and a general Benefit to the Republic of Letters'. This was no empty commendation. Johnson's work served as a model for lexicographers abroad. It is no surprise that his friend Giuseppe Baretti chose to make the Dictionary the model for his Italian–English dictionary of 1760, and for this Spanish dictionary nearly two decades later. But there are numerous examples of influence beyond Johnson's own circle. His work was translated into French and German."

"In 1777, when Ferdinando Bottarelli published a pocket dictionary of Italian, French and English (the three languages side by side), his authorities for the French and Italian words were the works of the French and Italian academies: for the English he used Johnson."

"The American adoption of the Dictionary was a momentous event not just in its history, but in the history of lexicography. For Americans in the second half of hte eighteenth century, Johnson was the seminal authority on language, and the subsequent development of American lexicography was coloured by his fame."

"America's two great nineteenth-century lexicographers, Noah Webster and Joseph Worcester, argued fiercely over Johnson's legacy ... In 1789 [Webster] declared that 'Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard; for the taste of her writers is already corrupted, and her language on the decline.'"

"Where Webster found fault with Johnson, Joseph Worcester saluted him ... In 1846 he completed his Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language. He defended Johnson's work, arguing that 'from the time of its publication, [it] has been, far more than any other, regarded as the standard for the language'."

"James Murray acknowledged that a good number of Johnson's explanations were adopted without change, for 'When his definitions are correct, and his arrangement judicious, it seems to be expedient to follow him.' ... In the end the OED reproduced around 1,700 of Johnson's definitions, marking them simply 'J.'."

"One unblushing admirer of the Dictionary was Jane Austen's father, who assembled a substantial collection of books by Johnson, by his friends and associates, and about both the man and his circle."

"The Dictionary has also played its part in the law, especially in the United States. Legistlators are much occuped with ascertaining 'first meanings', with trying to secure the literal sense of their predecessors' legislation ... Often it is a matter of historicizing language: to understand a law, you need to understand what its terminology meant to its original architects ... as long as the American Constitution remains intact, Johnson's Dictionary will have a role to play in American law."

Into Prose

Initial Reception

From the beginning there was universal appreciation not only the content of the Dictionary but Johnson's acheivement in single-handedly creating it: "When Boswell came to this part of Johnson's life, more than three decades later, he pronounced that 'the world contemplated with wonder so stupendous a work acheived by one man, while other countries had thought such undertakings fit only for whole academies'." "The Dictionary was considered, from the moment of its inception, to be Johnson's, and from the time of its completion it was Johnson's Dictionary—his book and his property, his monument, his memorial."

Immediately after publication "The Dictionary was enthusiastically written up in important periodicals such as the London Magazine and—none too surprisingly—the Gentleman's Magazine. In the latter it received an eight-page notice". The reviews, such as they existed, were generous in tone; "Of the less positive assessments the only properly judicious one came from Adam Smith in the pro-Whig Edinburgh Review ... he wished that Johnson 'had oftener passed his own censure upon those words which are not of approved use, though sometimes to be met with in authors of no mean name'. Furthermore, Johnson's approach was not 'sufficiently grammatical'".

Despite the Dictionary's critical acclaim, Johnson's general financial situation continued in its dismal fashion for some years after 1755: "The image of Johnson racing to write Rasselas to pay for his mother's funeral, romantic hyperbole though it is, conveys the precariousness of his existence, almost four years after his work on the Dictionary was done. His financial uncertainties continued. He gave up the house in Gough Square in March 1759, probably for lack of funds ... Yet, just as Johnson was plunging into another trough of despondency, the reputation of the Dictionary at last brought reward ... in July 1762 Johnson was granted a state pension of £300 a year by the twenty-four-year-old monarch, Geroge III ... The pension did not make him rich, but it ensured he would no longer have to grub around for the odd guinea."

Criticism

As lexicography developed, faults were found with Johnson's work: "From an early stage there were noisy detractors. Perhaps the loudest of them was John Horne Tooke ... Not content to pronounce it 'imperfect and faulty', he complained that it was 'one of the most idle performances ever offered to the public', that its author 'possessed not one single requisite for the undertaking', that its grammatical and historical parts were 'most truly contemptible performances', and that 'nearly one third ... is as much the language of the Hottentots as of the English'." "Horace Warpole summed up for the unbelievers when he pronounced at the end of the eighteenth century, 'I cannot imagine that Dr Johnson's reputation will be very lasting.' His dictionary was 'a surprising work for one man', but 'the task is too much for one man, and ... a society should alone pretend to publish a standard dictionary.' Warpole's reservations notwithstanding, the admirers out-numbered the detractors, and the reputation of the Dictionary was repeatedly boosted by other philologists, lexicographers, educationalists and word detectives."

Influence in Britain

Despite the criticisms "The influence of the Dictionary was sweeping. Johnson established both a methodology for how dictionaries should be put together and a paradigm for how entries should be presented. Anyone who sought to create a dictionary, post-Johnson, did so in his shadow." "In his sparkling history of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester asserts of its eighteenth-century predecessor that 'by the end of the century every educated household had, or had access to, the great book. So firmly established did it swiftly become that any request for "The Dictionary" would bring forth Johnson and none other.' 'One asked for The Dictionary,' writes Winchester, 'much as one might demand The Bible.'" One of the first editors of the OED "James Murray acknowledged that a good number of Johnson's explanations were adopted without change, for 'When his definitions are correct, and his arrangement judicious, it seems to be expedient to follow him.' ... In the end the OED reproduced around 1,700 of Johnson's definitions, marking them simply 'J.'."

Reputation abroad

Johnson's influence was not confined to Britain and English: "The president of the Florentine Accademia declared that the Dictionary would be 'a perpetual Monument of Fame to the Author, an Honour to his own Country in particular, and a general Benefit to the Republic of Letters'. This was no empty commendation. Johnson's work served as a model for lexicographers abroad. It is no surprise that his friend Giuseppe Baretti chose to make the Dictionary the model for his Italian–English dictionary of 1760, and for this Spanish dictionary nearly two decades later. But there are numerous examples of influence beyond Johnson's own circle. His work was translated into French and German." And "In 1777, when Ferdinando Bottarelli published a pocket dictionary of Italian, French and English (the three languages side by side), his authorities for the French and Italian words were the works of the French and Italian academies: for the English he used Johnson."

Influence in America

The Dictionary was exported to America. "The American adoption of the Dictionary was a momentous event not just in its history, but in the history of lexicography. For Americans in the second half of hte eighteenth century, Johnson was the seminal authority on language, and the subsequent development of American lexicography was coloured by his fame.". For American lexicographers the Dictionary was impossible to ignore: "America's two great nineteenth-century lexicographers, Noah Webster and Joseph Worcester, argued fiercely over Johnson's legacy ... In 1789 [Webster] declared that 'Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard; for the taste of her writers is already corrupted, and her language on the decline.'" "Where Webster found fault with Johnson, Joseph Worcester saluted him ... In 1846 he completed his Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language. He defended Johnson's work, arguing that 'from the time of its publication, [it] has been, far more than any other, regarded as the standard for the language'." Notwithstanding the evolution of American lexicography "The Dictionary has also played its part in the law, especially in the United States. Legistlators are much occuped with ascertaining 'first meanings', with trying to secure the literal sense of their predecessors' legislation ... Often it is a matter of historicizing language: to understand a law, you need to understand what its terminology meant to its original architects ... as long as the American Constitution remains intact, Johnson's Dictionary will have a role to play in American law."

Dr Johnson's Dictionary

Henry Hitchings's lively and entertaining biography of the book charts the struggle and ultimate triumph of one of the first attempts to 'fix' the language, which despite its imperfections proved to be one of the English language's most significant cultural monuments.

Popular accounts of Johnson turn him into a lovable eccentric, which is a way of avoiding his brainpower. Hitchings will have none of this. He keeps drawing attention to the unremitting intelligence that Johnson's lexicographical labours demanded, not least in separating out the ramifying senses of common words

Hitchings's task is to rescue Johnson from Boswell's attentions, much as Adam Sisman rescued the biographer from his own self-mythologising in Boswell's Presumptuous Task (2000), a logical companion piece to this work. The Johnson of the Dictionary was never known to Boswell, and as the older man was ill-disposed to animadvert on his younger self, Boswell got such basics as the great man's working methods on the Dictionary glaringly wrong. Not so Hitchings.

Into prose

The first popular account of Dr Johnson's magnum opus, it "charts the struggle and ultimate triumph of one of the first attempts to 'fix' the language, which despite its imperfections proved to be one of the English language's most significant cultural monuments". Avoiding the more usual portrayal of Dr Johnson as "a lovable eccentric" Hitchings "keeps drawing attention to the unremitting intelligence that Johnson's lexicographical labours demanded, not least in separating out the ramifying senses of common words". Whilst declaring that "Hitchings's task is to rescue Johnson from Boswell's attentions" Will Self pointed out "The Johnson of the Dictionary was never known to Boswell, and as the older man was ill-disposed to animadvert on his younger self, Boswell got such basics as the great man's working methods on the Dictionary glaringly wrong. Not so Hitchings".

The Secret Life of Words

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/10/05/the_hidden_joyful_world_of_words/ The book follows the "pedigree and career" of the English language through history, exposing its debt to invasions, to threats from abroad, and to an island people's dealings with the world beyond its shores. In doing this, Hitchings lays bare the general spirit of acquisitiveness that informs English as no other language. But, for all that, his true object is to reveal past frames of mind and to show how our present outlook is informed by the history squirreled away in the words we use

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/12/bohit112.xml

Rather than using history to explain language, Hitchings's sounder approach is to pick words apart to get at their origins ... Quite how Hitchings has managed to wrestle this dizzying mountain of dense information into such an elegant narrative in the mere two years since his study of Dr Johnson's dictionary is a feat almost as admirable as that of the great lexicographer

Whatever is hybrid, fluid and unpoliced about English delights him.

Into prose

Following the English language's history through "its debt to invasions, to threats from abroad, and to an island people's dealings with the world beyond its shores" the book examines its unbroken acquisitiveness—"but for all that [Hitchings'] true object is to reveal past frames of mind and to show how our present outlook is informed by the history squirreled away in the words we use". Instead of using history to explain language, Hitchings "picks words apart to find their origins" and then molds this "mountain of dense information into an elegant narrative". The Economist noted that "whatever is hybrid, fluid and unpoliced about English delights him".

Books on the Dales

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• Muir, Richard (1991), The Dales of Yorkshire: A Portrait, London: Macmillan, ISBN 9780333497869

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Biographies and memoirs

• Bradford, Richard (2005) First Boredom Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin, Peter Owen Publishers. ISBN 0-7206-1147-4
• Brennan, Maeve (2002) The Philip Larkin I Knew, Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-6275-6
• Hartley, Jean (1989) Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me, Carcanet Press. ISBN 0-856358-38-X
• Motion, Andrew (1993) Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life, Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-17065-X

• Bradford, Richard (2005), First Boredom Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin, Peter Owen, ISBN 0-7206-1147-4
• Brennan, Maeve (2002), The Philip Larkin I Knew, Manchester University Press, ISBN 0-7190-6275-6
• Hartley, Jean (1989), Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me, Carcanet Press, ISBN 0-856358-38-X
• Motion, Andrew (1993), Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-17065-X

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• Larkin, Philip (1979), "The Brynmor Jones Library 1929-1979", in Brennan, Maeve (ed.), 'A Lifted Study-Storehouse': The Brynmor Jones Library 1929-1979, updated to 1985, Hull University Press (published 1987), ISBN 0-85958-561-1

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• Murray, Douglas, Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, ISBN 0-340-76771-5
• Murray, Douglas (2005), Neoconservatism: Why We Need It, ISBN 1-904-86305-1
• Murray, Douglas; Verwey, Johan Pieter (2008), Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech within Europe's Muslim Communities

Haydn

In this opera Haydn combined the worlds of opera seria and buffa, achieving a balance between the heroic and the comic and allowing him to explore a wide variety of musical styles from serious emotions to hilarious parody.

The overture was used by Haydn as the finale of his Symphony No 73 'La Chasse'.

Both the noble characters Celia and Fileno have deeply felt cavatine early in the opera. The fright, cowardice and deranged state of Perrucchetto (literally 'wig-maker') are displayed in his breathless G minor aria, which ends with a request for a bottle of Bordeaux wine. Celia's aria "Deh soccorri un infelice" includes a difficult muted horn solo (often assigned to the bassoon).

The complex finale to Act I is based around keys related by thirds (four moves down a third, then a half tone step) to represent the downwards progression of the plot; this sequence is imitated in the opening numbers (after the overture) of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte. Haydn's key relationships in the Act II finale are developed even further by Mozart in Act II of his opera.

In Act II, the Count has a comic song "Di questo audace ferro" addressed to the not-quite-inert boar, while Melibeo's "Mi dica, il mio signore" is delightfully comic. Celia contemplates her own death in a musically adventurous scene "Ah come il core" (published separately as a solo cantata in 1782). While Amaranta's interaction with the others is usually comic, she is given a tender and tragic aria "Del amor mio fedele". In the Act II finale, Haydn's parody of Gluck's chorus of furies from Orfeo ed Euridice was probably intended to amuse his musical patron.

The dramatic action of La fedeltà premiata moves forward with great energy, successfully solving the problems of dramatic pacing that detract from some of his other operas.

The work is scored for an orchestra consisting of flute, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 trumpets, 2 horns, timpani, violins I & II, viola, cello, bass and continuo.

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In this opera Haydn combined the worlds of opera seria and buffa, achieving a balance between the heroic and the comic and allowing him to explore a wide variety of musical styles from serious emotions to hilarious parody.

On the one hand, both the nobly-born characters Celia and Fileno have deeply felt cavatine early in the opera and later Celia contemplates her own death in a musically adventurous scene "Ah come il core".

On the other hand, Melibeo's "Mi dica, il mio signore" is comic and in Act II, the Count has a comic song "Di questo audace ferro" addressed to the not-quite-inert boar. The fright, cowardice and deranged state of Perrucchetto - whose name literally means "wig-maker" - are displayed in his breathless G minor aria, which ends with a request for a bottle of Bordeaux wine.

While Amaranta's interaction with the others is usually comic, she is given a tender and tragic aria "Del amor mio fedele". This blurring of heroic and comic is also seen in the Act II finale, where Haydn parodies Gluck's chorus of furies from Orfeo ed Euridice.

The complex finale to Act I is based around keys related by thirds (four moves down a third, then a half tone step) - possibly to represent the downwards progression of the plot - Robbins Landon has observed that this sequence is imitated in the opening numbers of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte. Haydn's key relationships in the Act II finale are developed further in Cosi.

J.A. Rice has written that the dramatic action of La fedeltà premiata moves forward with great energy, successfully solving the problems of dramatic pacing that detract from some of his other operas.

The overture was used by Haydn as the finale of his Symphony No 73 'La Chasse'.

Celia's scene "Ah come il core" was published separately as a solo cantata in 1782.

The work is scored for an orchestra consisting of flute, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 trumpets, 2 horns, timpani, violins I & II, viola, cello, bass and continuo. Celia's aria "Deh soccorri un infelice" includes a difficult hand horn solo.

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Anthony Michaels-Moore (born x xxxx xxxx in xxxxxxx, xxxx) is an English baritone opera singer.

Michaels-Moore studied at Newcastle University and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and in 1985 was the first British winner of the Luciano Pavarotti Competition. His career has been centred around the Italian repetoire, starting with lyric roles, but now focused on the great Verdi baritone roles. A review of his 2009 performances of Rigoletto with English National Opera noted his ability to be both "gloriously lyrical and terrifyingly baleful at the same time", combining beautiful Italianate legato with "monstrous power".

Michaels-Moore made his début at London's Royal Opera House in 1987 and has subsequently appeared in many productions there including L’Elisir d’amore, La Bohème, I Pagliacci, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Tosca, Macbeth, The Marriage of Figaro, Andrea Chénier, Il Trovatore, Falstaff, Tosca, Lucia di Lammermoor and La Traviata. He has also appeared with all the other major British companies: English and Welsh National Operas, Opera North, Scottish Opera and Glyndebourne.

In Europe he has appeared at major houses such as the Vienna State Opera, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Opéra National de Paris, Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper, the Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper in Berlin, Barcelona’s Liceu, Brussels la Monnaie, the Grand Théâtre de Geneve and Madrid’s Teatro Real. He also appears regularly in North America, and has performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera, Chicago’s Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Colorado and Florida Grand Opera . He has also appeared at the historic Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.

Gary Lehman

Gary Lehman is an american operatic tenor, specialising in the Heldentenor repertoire

He initially trained as a baritone at Youngstown State University, continued his studies at Indiana University, and as a member of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists gave 90 performances with the Lyric Opera of Chicago He made his debut as a tenor in 2006 as Samson in Samson et Dalila.

Lehman's first Wagner performances were in the title role in Tannhauser in March 2007. A year later he made his Met debut in Tristan. He repeated the role with the Mariinsky Opera in June 2008, with Leipzig Opera in January 09 and gave concert performances with the Philharmonia Orchestrea throughout Europe in Aug and September of 2010. Further Wagner roles have been Siegmund in Die Walkure, at the Met, and the title role in Parsifal, which he has recorded.

After Ben Heppner dropped out of ongoing Metropolitan Opera Ring Cycle it was announced in February 2011 that Lehman will sing Siegfried in both Siegfried in October 2011 and Gotterdammerung in January 2012.

His repertoire also includes Canio in Pagliacci, the title role in Peter Grimes, Florestan in Fidelio, and Alwa in Lulu.

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He initially trained as a baritone at Youngstown State University, continued his studies at Indiana University, and as a member of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists gave 90 performances with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He made his debut as a tenor in 2006 as Samson in Samson et Dalila.

Lehman's first Wagner performances were in the title role in Tannhauser in March 2007. A year later he made his both his Metropolitan Opera and role debuts in Tristan und Isolde. He repeated the role with the Mariinsky Opera in June 2008, with Leipzig Opera in January 2009 and gave concert performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra throughout Europe in August and September of 2010. Further Wagner roles have been Siegmund in Die Walküre, also at the Met, and the title role in Parsifal, which he has recorded.

After Ben Heppner dropped out of the ongoing Metropolitan Opera Ring Cycle it was announced in February 2011 that Lehman will sing Siegfried in both Siegfried in October 2011 and Götterdämmerung in January 2012.

His repertoire also includes Canio in Pagliacci, the title role in Peter Grimes, Florestan in Fidelio, and Alwa in Lulu.

Neil Howlett

Neil Howlett is an English baritone opera singer.

Howlett studied at Cambridge University. While there he won the 1957 Kathleen Ferrier Award. The peak of his career was the seventeen years he spent as principal baritone with English National Opera. His wide range of repertoire included the heaviest Verdi roles, especially Iago in Otello, and many Heldenbaritone roles, such as Amfortas and Scarpia. Late in his career he also sang Wotan.

His recordings include Verdi's Otello with ENO in 1983, alongside Charles Craig and Rosalind Plowright, for Chandos Records.

After retiring from full-time performance Howlett was Head of Vocal Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Artur Ruciński

Artur Ruciński (born in Warsaw in 1976) is a Polish baritone opera singer.

Ruciński studied at the Warsaw Academy of Music and made his debut as Papageno in The Magic Flute with Warsaw Chamber Opera in 2001.IMG Artists website

In 2002 he made his debut at Warsaw's National Theatre, taking the title role in Yevgeny Onegin. He has gone on to sing Onegin with the Berlin State Opera.

Other roles have included Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Prince Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades, Marcello in La bohème, Riccardo in I puritani and Valentin in Faust.

Anna Christy

Anna Christy is an America soprano opera singer.

Christy sings a variety of lyric roles, such as Susanna, Papagena and Cleopatra, but has won especial reknown in coloratura roles such as Cunegonde in Candide (musical) and Oscar in Un ballo in maschera. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2004/5 season, and has sung with Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, L'Opera National de Paris and the Royal Opera House, London.

In February 2010 she reprised her interpretation of the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor for English National Opera.

Sarah Tynan

Sarah Tynan is a British soprano opera singer.

Studio Recordings

Robert Merrill made at least 23 studio recordings of complete operas:

Composer	Opera	Role	Date
Bizet	Carmen	Escamillo	1951, 1963
Donizetti	Lucia di Lammermoor	Enrico	1961
Leoncavallo	Pagliacci	Silvio	1953
Leoncavallo	Pagliacci	Tonio	1967
Mascagni	Cavalleria rusticana	Alfio	1953
Ponchielli	La Gioconda	Barnaba	1967
Puccini	La bohème	Marcello	1956, 1961
Puccini	Manon Lescaut	Lescaut	1954
Puccini	Il tabarro	Michele	1962
Rossini	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Figaro	1958
Straus	Der tapfere Soldat	Bumerli	1952
Verdi	Aida	Amonasro	1961
Verdi	Un ballo in maschera	Renato	1966
Verdi	Falstaff	Ford	1963
Verdi	La forza del destino	Don Carlo	1964
Verdi	Rigoletto	Rigoletto	1956, 1963
Verdi	La traviata	Germont	1960, 1962
Verdi	Il trovatore	Conte di Luna	1964

Performances with the Metropolitan Opera

Robert Merrill made 769 performances with the Metropolitan Opera in the following 21 roles:

Composer	Opera	Role	First performance	Last performance	Total performances
Verdi	La traviata	Germont	1945-12-15	1976-03-15	132
Donizetti	Lucia di Lammermoor	Enrico	1945-12-29	1965-01-23	16
Bizet	Carmen	Escamillo	1946-01-07	1972-01-04	81
Mussorgsky	Boris Godunov	Shchelkalov	1946-11-21	1947-04-21	5
Gounod	Faust	Valentin	1946-1223	1972-05-04	48
Verdi	Aida	Amonasro	1947-01-11	1973-06-01	72
Rossini	Il Barbiere di Siviglia	Figaro	1947-11-15	1966-06-04	46
Verdi	Il trovatore	Count di Luna	1947-12-11	1973-05-30	73
Saint-Saëns	Samson et Dalila	High Priest	1949-11-26	1950-04-30	10
Verdi	Don Carlo	Rodrigo	1950-11-06	1972-06-21	51
Leoncavallo	Pagliacci	Silvio	1951-02-09	1951-02-09	1
Leoncavallo	Pagliacci	Tonio	1952-03-14	1964-04-02	22
Verdi	Rigoletto	Rigoletto	1952-11-15	1972-02-05	56
Puccini	La Boheme	Marcello	1952-12-27	1954-02-01	10
Verdi	Un ballo in maschera	Renato	1955-02-26	1976-05-29	56
Donizetti	Don Pasquale	Maletesta	1956-04-09	1956-12-10	8
Ponchielli	La Gioconda	Barnaba	1958-12-11	1962-04-16	13
Verdi	La forza del destino	Don Carlo	1961-12-12	1972-06-09	33
Giordano	Andrea Chénier	Carlo Gérard	1962-10-15	1966-03-22	7
Verdi	Otello	Iago	1963-03-10	1965-05-07	18
Puccini	Tosca	Scarpia	1964-10-23	1974-12-09	11

Repertoire

Verdi

• Rigoletto
• Nabucco
• Attila
• Simon Boccanegra
• Germont in La Traviata
• Rodrigo in Don Carlos
• Iago in Otello
• Ford in Falstaff
• Count di Luna in Il trovatore
• Stankar in Stiffelio
• Vasconcello in I Vespri Siciliani
• Don Carlo in La Forza del Destino
• Francesco Foscari in I due Foscari

Puccini

• Scarpia in Tosca
• Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West
• Marcello in La Bohème
• Sharpless in Madama Butterfly
• Lescaut in Manon Lescaut

Donizetti

• Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor
• Belcore in L'elisir d'amore
• Antonio in Linda di Chamounix

Other Italian repertoire

• Figaro in The Barber of Seville by Rossini
• Chief Priest in La Vestale by Spontini
• Gérard in Andrea Chenier by Giordano
• Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni
• Silvio in Pagliacci by Leoncavallo
• De Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac by Alfano

Repertoire in other languages

• Yevgeny Onegin by Tchaikovsky
• Hamlet by Thomas
• Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck
• Lescaut in Manon by Massenet
• Zurga in The Pearl Fishers by Bizet
• The Count in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart
• Balstode in Peter Grimes by Britten

Recordings

Complete operas

• Orazio in Orazi e Curiazi by Mercadante with the David Parry and the Philharmonia Orchestra (Opera Rara)
• Balstrode in Peter Grimes by Britten with Sir Colin Davis and LSO (LSO Live)
• Yeoman of the Guard with Sir Neville Marriner (Philips Classics)
• Alphonse in La Favorita by Donizetti with Marcello Viotti (BMG Classics)
• Enrio in Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti with Sir Charles Mackerras (Sony)
• Ford in Falstaff by Verdi with John Eliot Gardiner (Decca)
• Egberto in Aroldo by Verdi with Fabio Luisi (Philips Classics)
• Renato in A Masked Ball by Verdi with David Parry (Chandos)
• La vestale by Spontini with Riccardo Muti (Sony)

Other recordings

• Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater with Claus Peter Flor (BMG Classics)
• Orff's Carmina Burana with André Previn (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Purcell's The Fairy Queen with Harnoncourt (Teldec Classics)
• Puccini arias with the Royal Opera House Orchestra (Conifer)
• Mendelssohn’s Erste Walpurgisnacht with the Philharmonia Orchestra

Outstanding issues from Peer Review

1. Life

1.1 1922–50

[Currently none]

1.2 1950–69

[Currently none]

1.3 1969–85

• BB says: "It seems that too little use is made in the article of the collected letters, which could be used to flesh out more details of his private life, including some quite significant incidents. Among things not mentioned in the article are his being made a Companion of Honour in summer 1985 (letter to Anthony Powell 7 August 1985) and his being too ill to receive it from the Queen (letter 18 October 1985 to Colin Gunner). Also, we learn that Larkin was made a Companion of Literature (C.Litt) by the RSL, a more singular honour than a Fellowship (letter to Robert Conquest, 4 July 1978), and we can read what he thought about this ("Down among the dead men")" Does anyone have with access to this book? If so, could they dredge up the information being pointed to by BB?

• BB comments: "The section title "1969-85: "Beyond the light stand failure and remorse" is, I believe, too literary and cryptic for an encyclopedia. It suggests the editor's voice in summarising Larkin's career. I'd go for something less personal."

2. Creative Output

2.1 Juvenilia &c.

• BB says: "Booth's collection of the Coleman fiction and other early writing has a lengthy introduction discussing these works. It would be good to see this used as a source. In particular there is discussion of two unfinished novels No For An Answer and A New World Symphony, dated as between 1948 and 1954. These are not mentioned in the article, and I believe they should be, particularly as Booth's book has long (80+ pages) extracts from both." I don't have this book. Does anyone else?

• "In what way did [The North Ship] show the influence of Yeats?"

2.2 Mature works

• "I feel like the analysis of Larkin's writing is a bit thin. The "Creative output" section doesn't contain any analysis of his novels, for example."

2.3 Poetic style

• M3 says: "I'm not getting a sense in the Creative output section of how Larkin's poetry style or themes resounded with his generation, whether he was revolutionary or not, whether he was as plain as any poet who gets into a magazine" and "I am also wishing for a statement or paragraph in this section ... that roundly states what his poems were about, what essence they captured, and how critics have since described his career"

• "Larkin's earliest work showed the influence of Eliot, Auden and Yeats, and the development of his mature poetic identity in the early 1950s coincided with the growing influence on him of Thomas Hardy. - In what specific ways did these other poets influence Larkin's work?"

• "The "Poetic style" section is almost entirley made up of quotations. Could some of these be removed and paraphrases used instead? It is jarring for the reader to read so many quotes."

2.4 Prose non-fiction

• BB says: "we should be told whose view it is that in Required Writing his scepticism is at its most "nuanced and illuminating" (and preferably what this means), and at its most inflamed and polemical in the Daily Telegraph reviews. The sentence beginning "His scepticism...." is much too long and needs dividing" This, IIRC was written a long time ago. It would be good if someone could rewrite the whole section, IMO

3. Legacy

3.1 Reception

• Paraphrase long Bradford quote on High Windows

• More wanted on Larkin at Sixty

3.2 Critical opinion

• BB says: ""Cooper draws on the entire canon of Larkin's works, as well as on unpublished correspondence, to counter the oft-repeated caricature of Larkin as a racist, misogynist reactionary." Your use of the word "caricature" indicates that the view of Larkin as racist, reactionary etc is wrong, or at least distorted. Having heard and read a geat deal of Larkin, I have no doubt that this was a significant part of his character. It was doubtless not all of him; but to suggest that he was "caricatured" as a racist etc is unjustified."

• "The "Critical opinion" section is almost a list of opinions rather than a coherent, topically-based section. There is even a one-sentence paragraph. This section needs to be restructed so that the reader is led through the different ideas rather than through the different critics. The names of the critics are not so important as the ideas. Also, the critics should be grouped together better, to indicate broad trends in Larkin scholarship. The paragraph that begins "The view that Larkin is not a nihilist or pessimist, but actually displays optimism in his works, is certainly not universally endorsed, but Chatterjee's lengthy study suggests the degree to which old stereotypes of Larkin are now being transcended" is the best example of the kind of topical coherence that the rest of the section should have."

3.4 Posthumous rep

• M3 says: "If so, can you reconcile how someone could love black music so much and hate blacks?" Personally, I'm not sure a reconciliation is possible, I think the contradiction remains. I recall two contrasting quotes: (a) "The Negro did not have the blues because he was naturally melancholy. He had them because he was cheated and bullied and starved." Does anyone know the source for this? (b) something in the letters about "the patter of Caribbean germs on the Underground", which I think I recall from the Letters. Again, can anyone find this? I think these two make for a good illustration of the problem.

3.5 Recordings

• "The last three paragraphs of "Recordings" are a prose list - can you integrate these a bit more seamlessly?"

• "Footnote 129 should indicate that the YouTube video is a recording of a SkyOne broadcast."

3.6 Fiction based on L's life

• "The first paragraph ... should explain the content of the play a bit more."

• "Footnote 133 - the link is broken"

4. General issues

• "The first time any published work of Larkin's is mentioned, please put the publication date in parentheses next to it."

• Article is overlinked

• Alt text needed for the photos.

• Please add publication locations to the references

• "What makes this a reliable source?"

• "Was this originally published in The Observer? It looks that way from the website. If so, that should be indicated in the footnote."

• "This artice was originally published in Twentieth Century Literature (Summer 1996) - this needs to be indicated in the footnote."

• "What makes this a reliable source?"

• "What makes this Larkin biography a reliable source?"

• "What makes this a reliable source?"

high windows reception

Of the reception of High Windows Richard Bradford writes, "the reviews were generally favourable, with the notable exception of Robert Nye in The Times, but each reflected the difficulty of writing a 500–1,000-word piece on a collection which, while short, compelled fascination and confusion. The admiration for the volume was genuine for most reviewers, but one also senses anxiety in their prose, particularly on how to describe the individual genius at work in poems such as "Annus Mirabilis", "The Explosion" and "The Building" and at the same time explain why each is so radically different. Nye overcomes this problem by treating the differences as ineffective masks for a consistently nasty presence"

Prose non-fiction

Larkin was a notable critic of modernism in contemporary art and literature. His scepticism is at its most nuanced and illuminating in Required Writing, a collection of his book reviews and essays, and at its most inflamed and polemical in his introduction to his collected jazz reviews, All What Jazz, drawn from the 126 record-review columns he wrote for The Daily Telegraph between 1961 and 1971, which contains an attack on modern jazz that widens into a wholesale critique of modernism in the arts. Despite the reputation Larkin not unwillingly acquired as an enemy of modernism, recent critical assessments of Larkin's writings have identified them as possessing some modernist characteristics.

• "Once Larkin has classified modern jazz under the general heading of modernism, it is true that he knows where he is; he now has a way of explaining every feature of the music of Parker, Coltrane, and Davis. Unfortunately, this also means that jazz must now conform to his paradigm of modernism, and this produces a somewhat eccentric history of jazz."[5]

• "In "The Pleasure Principle" (1957) he charges that poetry has lost its true (that is, pleasure-seeking) audience through a kind of conspiracy between the poet, the literary critic, and the academic critic, three classes so indistinguishable that "the poet has gained the happy position wherein he can praise his own poetry in the press and explain it in the classroom" (RW 81). The audience that reads poetry for pleasure has been replaced by an audience of students who learn from their (mystifying) professors that "reading a poem is hard work" (RW 81)." [same]

• "Still, it is intriguing to conceive of a jazz or blues intertext inhabiting the Larkin canon that may be glimpsed now and then, as in the opening of Larkin's last great poem "Aubade" (CP 208), "I work all day, and get half drunk at night," a line that, read in another context, could as easily be attributed to Sleepy John Estes or Blind Lemon Jefferson." [same, p.12]

• "The possibility that Larkin himself may have doubted the sincerity of the introduction is suggested by his remarks to Donald Mitchell, to whom All What Jazz is dedicated, and to Peter Crawley, sales director at Faber & Faber. He told Mitchell that the introduction was "not perhaps to be taken very seriously" (Letters 408). To Crawley he said of the thesis of the introduction - that "post-Parker jazz is the equivalent of modernist developments in other arts": "I don't think this has actually been said before, and, while it may not be wholly defensible, I think it is sufficiently amusing to say once" (Letters 417)." [same, p.14]

• "He characterizes the blues as "a kind of jazz that calls forth a particular sincerity from the player ('Yeah, he's all right, but can he play the blues?')," and he argues that the "Negro did not have the blues because he was naturally melancholy. He had them because he was cheated and bullied and starved" (AWJ 87, 224). The deprivation-daffodil parallel more aptly applies to the makers of the music to which Larkin was addicted and through which he experienced his privation secondhand." [same, p.1]

• "And while Wordsworth remembers the "very Heaven" of being young at the time of the French Revolution, Larkin's later reflection on his youth was that it was his particular bliss to have been young at the only time he could have experienced the pleasure of jazz. Had he died on 9 August 1922 instead of being born then, or had he been born a decade or so later, he would have missed it all (AWJ 28), since, he notes, jazz was the "emotional excitement" peculiar to one generation, his own, that "came to adolescence" between the two World Wars. "In another age," he suggests, "it might have been drink or drugs, religion or poetry" (Letters 416, AWJ 15). Or daffodils or revolution. Larkin's claim to have substituted jazz for the inspirations and excitements of other ages is something more than his characteristic philistine pose, even if it is also that. Jazz was, along with poetry, the great passion of his life ("In many ways I prefer it to poetry")(3) and his reader may well wonder about the extent to which the two passions intersect."

• "More than that, it was an unpretentious art built on a simple and direct emotional appeal that did not depend on an extensive musical education" [same, p.2]

Clive James on RW

• "He has a way of bringing out the foibles of his fellow-artists while leaving their dignity at least intact and usually enhanced. To take his beloved Hardy as an example — and many other examples, from Francis Thompson to Wilfred Owen, would do as well — he convincingly traces the link between moral lassitude and poetic strength"

• "He isn’t exactly telling us to Buy British, but there can be no doubt that he attaches little meaning to the idea of internationalism in the arts. All too vague, too unpindownable, too disrupting of the connections between literature and the life of the nation."

• "In Required Writing the Impulse to Preserve is mentioned often. Larkin the critic, like Larkin the librarian, is a keeper of English literature"

Larkin and race

Yep, that's a nice story. I like the description of him in the penultimate paragraph--it's too easy to represent him as dour and death-obsessed. Ideally we would show all sides of his character. In the letters it's interesting to compare the Larkin who speaks to Betjeman with the one who speaks to Amis. The one horrible nettle that we do need to decide how to grasp is this one:

The same piece contains another series of sentences that Palmer says completely absolve Larkin of racism:

"The American Negro is trying to take a step forward that can be compared only to the ending of slavery in the nineteenth century. And despite the dogs, the hosepipes and the burnings, advances have already been made towards giving the Negro his civil rights that would have been inconceivable when Louis Armstrong was a young man. These advances will doubtless continue. They will end only when the Negro is as well-housed, educated and medically cared for as the white man."

According to Palmer, those four sentences expose all the post-Motion and post-Letters furore about Larkin’s ‘racism’ as the nonsense it is. A true racist would either be incapable of having such thoughts in the first place or wouldn’t dream of proclaiming them so eloquently. Disregarding the specious comment on eloquence, a less forgiving reader could counter by asking if this does not qualify as the thought of a true racist:

"I find the state of the nation quite terrifying. In 10 years’ time we shall all be cowering under our beds as hordes of blacks steal anything they can lay their hands on."

Or this:

"We don’t go to [cricket] Test matches now, too many fucking niggers about."

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Trying to resolve Larkin's contradictory opinions on race in his book Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin, the writer Richard Palmer quotes a letter Larkin wrote to Betjeman, as if it exposes "all the post-Motion and post-Letters furore about Larkin’s 'racism' as the nonsense it is":

"The American Negro is trying to take a step forward that can be compared only to the ending of slavery in the nineteenth century. And despite the dogs, the hosepipes and the burnings, advances have already been made towards giving the Negro his civil rights that would have been inconceivable when Louis Armstrong was a young man. These advances will doubtless continue. They will end only when the Negro is as well-housed, educated and medically cared for as the white man."

Reviewing Palmer's book, John G. Rodwan, Jr. wonders "if this does not qualify as the thought of a true racist: 'I find the state of the nation quite terrifying. In 10 years’ time we shall all be cowering under our beds as hordes of blacks steal anything they can lay their hands on.' Or this: 'We don’t go to [cricket] Test matches now, too many fucking niggers about.'"

Letters

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985

Author	Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite
Language	English
Genre	Correspondence
Publisher	Faber and Faber, London
Publication date	1 January, 1992
Publication place	England
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	791 pages
ISBN	0-571-17048-X

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985

The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985 was a volume compiled by Anthony Thwaite, one of Philip Larkin's literary executors. It was published in 1992 by Faber and Faber.

Rose

Matthew Rose (born 1978 in Brighton) is an English operatic bass.

Biography

Rose studied at Seaford College, Petworth, Canterbury Christ Church University, and the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia. In 2003 he joined the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

He has performed at La Scala, Milan, The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, WNO, Houston Grand Opera, Opéra National de Lyon, Teatro Real, Madrid and ENO. He has sung most of the standard oratorio repertoire in concert, working with orchestras such as the LSO, the BBCSO and the CBSO, and has given recitals at venues such as the Wigmore Hall

NS

Nicholas Sharratt (born in Nottingham) is an English operatic tenor.

Biography

Sharratt studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio.

He has performed the title role in Orpheus in the Underworld for Scottish Opera and Ernesto in Don Pasquale for English Touring Opera. Other lead roles have included Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore for Grange Park Opera and Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Opera North.

In 2012 he will play Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville for English Touring Opera.

Operatic repertoire

• Doctor in Vanessa by Barber
• Don Fernando in Fidelio by Beethoven
• Zuniga in Carmen by Bizet
• Claggart, Lieutenant Ratcliffe & Mr Flint in Billy Budd (opera) by Britten
• Abbott in Curlew River by Britten
• Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Britten
• Noye in Noye's Fludde by Britten
• Swallow in Peter Grimes by Britten
• Collatinus in The Rape of Lucretia by Britten
• Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti
• Talbot in Maria Stuarda by Donizetti
• Albert in La Juive by Halevy
• Haraschta in The Cunning Little Vixen by Janacek
• Seneca in L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi
• Speaker & Sarastro in The Magic Flute by Mozart
• Leporello in Don Giovanni by Mozart
• Publio in La clemenza di Tito by Mozart
• Title role in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart
• Crespel in The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach
• Colline in La bohème by Puccini
• Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville by Rossini
• Truffuladino in Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss
• Tutor in Elektra by Strauss
• Tiresias in Oedipus Rex by Stravinsky
• Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress by Stravinsky
• Gremin in Yevgeny Onegin by Tchaikovsky
• Il re in Aida by Verdi
• Monk in Don Carlos by Verdi
• Pistola in Falstaff by Verdi
• Lodovico in Otello by Verdi
• Tom in Un ballo in maschera by Verdi
• Pogner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Wagner
• Fasolt in Das Rheingold by Wagner

Recordings

He has recorded with Sir Colin Davis (Berlioz L'enfance du Christ and a Child of our Time for LSO Live), Sir Charles Mackerras (Mozart Vespers and Schubert Mass in E flat with Dresden Staatskappelle), Richard Hickox (Schubert Mass in E flat), Antonio Pappano (Tristan and Isolde) and a CD of Liszt songs with Iain Burnside.

Salome disambig

Visual arts

• Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist, painting by Sandro Botticelli, 1488
• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, painting by Cornelis Engelbrechtsz, c. 1490
• The Daughter of Herodias, painting by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1510
• Salome, sculpture by Tilman Riemenschneider, 1500-1510
• Salome, painting by Casare da Sesta, 1510-20
• Salome, painting by Giampietrino, c. 1510-30,
• Salome, painting by Alonso Berruguete, 1512-16
• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, painting by Titian, c. 1515
• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, painting by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
• Salome with the head of St John the Baptist, painting by Titian, c. 1530
• Salome, painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1530
• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, London), painting by Caravaggio, c. 1607
• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Madrid) (Caravaggio), painting by Caravaggio, c. 1609
• Salome, painting by Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, 1615-20
• Salome Dancing before Herod, painting by Jacob Hogers, c. 1630-55
• Salome Presented with the Head of St. John the Baptist, painting by Leonaert Bramer, 1630s
• Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, painting by Guido Reni, 1639-40
• The Daughter of Herodias Receiving the Head of John the Baptist, by Gustave Doré, 1865
• Salome, painting by Henri Regnault, 1870
• Salome Dancing before Herod, painting by Gustave Moreau 1874-76
• Salome, painting by Gustave Moreau, 1876
• The Daughter of Herodias Dancing, painting by James Tissot, 1886-96
• Salome, painting by Nikolai Astrup
• Salome, painting by Franz von Stuck, 1906
• Salome, painting by Robert Henri, 1909

Stage works

• Salome (play) (1893), by Oscar Wilde
• Salome (opera) (1905), by Richard Strauss
• La tragédie de Salomé, 1907 ballet by Florent Schmitt
• Salomé (Mariotte), 1908 opera by Antoine Mariotte to the Wilde play

Songs

• Salome, a song by Karel Kryl (1965)
• Salome, a song by The House of Love on their debut album, The House of Love (1988 album)
• Salome, a 1990 song by U2:
  • included in the 1992 single "Even Better Than the Real Thing"
  • eight versions of the song included in Salome: The Axtung Beibi Outtakes (1993), a 3 disc studio bootleg of U2's Achtung Baby recording sessions
  • remix of the single included in the 1995 fan club compilation album Melon: Remixes for Propaganda
• Salome, a song by Alcazar on their debut album Casino (2000)
• Salome, a song by Lili Haydn on her debut album Lili (1997)
• Salome, a song composed by Edward Shearmur on the original soundtrack of the motion picture The Governess (1998)
• Salome, a song by the Old 97s, featured on their album Too Far to Care and sung live in the 2006 movie The Break Up
• Salomé - The Seventh Veil, a 2007 album by Xandria which also features the song Salomé
• When Salome plays the drum, a song by Jimmy Buffett, featured on his "Bars" disc of his "Bars, Beaches, Boats and Ballads" collection.
• Salomé (song), a song written by popular Puerto Rican singer Chayanne.
• Salomé, a song written by Pete Doherty.

Films

• Salomé (1910 film) short film by Ugo Falena
• Salomé (1918 film), starring Theda Bara
• Salomé (1923 film)
• Salome (1953 film), starring Rita Hayworth
• Salome (1973 film), directed by Clive Barker
• Salome (1986 film)
• Salomé (2002 film), directed by Carlos Saura
• Salome's Last Dance (1988), film by Ken Russell
• Salome, a fictional West Texas town, which is the setting for the 1996 Kevin Costner film Tin Cup (most of the images in the opening sequence are taken in the tiny Arizona town of Salome)
• Salomé (telenovela) (2001), Mexican telenovela starring Edith González
• Salomé in Low Land (2006), pixel animation film by Christian Zagler (born Graz, 1980) based on Richard Strauss' opera; World premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2006

Literature

• Salome: My First 2000 Years of Love (1953), novel by George S. Viereck and Paul Eldridge
• Salomé – Five Plays (The Seven Veils, Dialogue with the Baptist, Salomé's Reward, The Chop and The Platter) by Nick Cave, included in King Ink, ISBN 1-880985-08-X, 1988, pp. 67-76
• Salome, main character of the 1990 novel Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
• Salome, a poem by Carol Ann Duffy, featured in The World's Wife (1999).
• Salomé, novel by François Weyergans, written in 1968 but only published in 2005, the year he received the Prix Goncourt for Trois jours chez ma mère