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[Program for the first performance of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 1 December 1951, conducted by the composer].

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[Program for the first performance of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, by Sadler's Wells Opera, on 7 June 1945, conducted by Reginald Goodall].

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[Program for the first performance of Benjamin Britten's Prince of the Pagodas, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 1 January 1957, conducted by the composer].

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[Program for the first performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, in Coventry Cathedral, on 30 May 1962, conducted by the composer].

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[Program for the first performance of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, at the Teatro alla Scala (Milan), 1956-1957 season, conducted by Nino Sanzogno].

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[Program for the first performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddygore (later Ruddigore), at the Savoy Theatre (London), on 22 January 1887, conducted by the composer].

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[Program for the first performance of Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley, at the Indiana University Auditorium (Bloomington, Ind.), on 15 July 1948].

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[Program for the first performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, at the Opera House of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), on 8 September 1971].

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[Program for the first performance of Mendelssohn's Elias (in English, as Elijah), at the Birmingham Music Festival, on 26 August 1846, conducted by the composer].

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[Program for the first performance of Michael Tippett's Midsummer Marriage, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 27 January 1955, conducted by John Pritchard].

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