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1914–94, English Armed with his experience as a stage director and as a producer for BBC Television (1936–39), Crozier helped create a new national identity for British opera while lending his expertise to composer Benjamin Britten. After all, if opera were to become viable in theatrical terms, then the composer, librettist and stage director would have to ...

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Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden on 1 December 1951, this adaptation of Herman Melville’s short story saw E. M. Forster writing large portions of prose while Eric Crozier focused on the dramatic execution. Accordingly, Billy Budd was one of the most meticulously researched and well-written librettos of any Benjamin Britten opera. Typically for a Britten protagonist, ...

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Glyndebourne in 1946. In addition to their dramatic and artistic merits, chamber operas were financially viable, and to that end Britten, Pears, Joan Cross and Eric Crozier founded the English Opera Group. Albert Herring (1947) was their first production, and they expanded on this success by creating the Aldeburgh Festival the following year, in the ...

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films and screenplays have contributed to a Philip Glass trilogy: Orphée, La Belle et la Bête and Les enfants terribles. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Personalities | Eric Crozier | Modern Era | Opera ...

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overlooking the sea that is so vividly described in the original poem. As the English Opera Group began to experience critical success, Britten and his co-founders, Pears and Crozier, felt they could provide it with a residency in Aldeburgh for public performances. With the aid of government funding, they subsequently created a viable festival; a proud achievement ...