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Stealing the show at the festival

17 years ago
Gary Hoffman

Michael Dervan [Irish Times, 22 October 2008]

BACK IN 1965 when his second opera, The Mines of Sulphur, was premiered at Sadler’s Wells in London, Richard Rodney Bennett, not yet 30, was one of the young hotshots of British music.

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