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Glyndebourne Production Correspondence, 1947 Festival, General Correspondence, A-Z Correspondents

Reference code: G/CC/9/3/1
Level: File
Title: Glyndebourne Production Correspondence, 1947 Festival, General Correspondence, A-Z Correspondents
Date: 1947
Quantity & Format: 185 letters, 05 documents
Repository: Glyndebourne Archive
Creator(s): Bing, Rudolf KBE (Sir)
Caplat, Moran
Christie, John
Mildmay, Audrey
Stiedry, Fritz
Ferrier, Kathleen CBE
Scope and content: Contains correspondence with -
[Includes some correspondence dating from 1946]

E.Anaermet (01 letter)

Kathleen Ferrier (17 letters)

Ibbs & Tillett (03 letters)

Eric Kleiber (02 letters)

Marks Levine (09 letters, 01 document)
[Document = Publicity flyer for NCAC Concert Division]

Ernest Newman (03 letters)
[02 letters are written between Ernest Newman and Audrey Christie]
Audrey Christie writes, 10 June 1947, “Last year we were responsible financially for the Britten Group, although with no artistic responsibility as we simply took them over and gave them the opportunity to start. Now, with no sign of gratitude for the enormous pains and colossal £:d:d: lost over their tour with “Lucretia”, they have formed their own Company, and although (out of desire to forward this well-intentioned movement which one hopes may take on finally the true stature of English Opera), we have this year invited them to open here, we are in no way responsible financially or otherwise. On the other hand, “Orfeo” is our own re-start of our pre-War classical Festival and to have this event ignored by the “Sunday Times” would be from our point of view most serious, especially as in truth we are struggling for our very existence in face of the State-supported Covent Garden and Sadler’s Wells plus whisky-supported Pomeroy…On my part this is literally a cry for HELP!”

Jay Pomeroy (14 letters, 03 documents)
Documents = Notes on basis for association of “Glyndebourne” and M.A.& D. Ltd, for work on a programme to be agreed from 1st January 1947

Glyndebourne Productions Ltd to associate with M.A.& D. Ltd as from January 1st 1947 under the following terms and conditions

Questions concerning Glyndebourne Opera Company and New London Opera Company

The Southern/Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra (38 letters, 01 documents)
[The Southern/Brighton Philharmonic Society/Herbert Menges provided the orchestra for the 1947 production of Orfeo ed Euridice]
[Document = Brighton Philharmonic Society, Prospectus, 1946-47]

Fritz Stiedry, Conductor of the 1947 Festival (75 letters)
[01 letter is written in German from Erika Stiedry to ‘Nina’ (Nina Bing?), 03 April 1947]
[01 letter is written in German from Fritz Stiedry to Rudolf Bing (?), 25 May 1947]

Zoe Vlachopoulou (23 letters)
[Contains correspondence written in German from Zoe Vlachopoulou and Renato Mordo]
Content event: Opera production: GFO 1947 Orfeo ed Euridice (1947)
Content language: English
German
Content other: Orfeo ed Euridice (New production)