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  1. New director at Royal Opera House (1988)

    Genre
    Interview

    Rodney Bennett interviews new Royal Opera House general director Jeremy Isaacs (formerly of Channel 4) at his first press conference. On his plans for the first season, financing the opera and planned...

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  2. Covent Garden building project (1988)

    Genre
    Interview

    Margaret Shields interviews Jim Monahan of the Covent Garden Community Association after they lost their appeal court case against the granting of planning permission by Westminster Council for a massive...

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  3. Covent Garden building project (1988)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Jeremy Isaacs, General Director of the Royal Opera House on the result of the appeal case which they have won, allowing them planning permission for a massive building project to raise funds...

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  4. Jeremy Isaacs on Royal Opera House cuts (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Rodney Bennett interviews Jeremy Isaacs, Director-General of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The Royal Opera House expects to lose over a million pounds in the current financial year and it blames cuts...

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  5. Margot Fonteyn at charity gala (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Vox pop

    Britain’s greatest prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn returned to Covent Garden last night for a royal charity gala in her honour. It included the ballet Romeo and Juliet which she made famous, this...

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  6. British opera singer replaces Domingo (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Phil Edwards? interviews British tenor Jeffrey Lawton on getting a phone call out of the blue to replace Placido Domingo as the lead man in Otello at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden after Domingo became...

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  7. Pavarotti press conference in Covent Garden (1990)

    Genre
    Music; News report; Press conference

    After five years away from the stage, and after two dreadful runs at Covent Garden, tenor Luciano Pavarotti returns to perform the opera, L’Elisir D’Amore. A press conference was held outside the Savoy...

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  8. Michael Hordern on new role (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Barney Burnham interviews Sir Michael Hordern on the Artbeat programme as the actor prepares for his speaking role in the opera, Der Freischutz at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. On the role, and his...

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  9. Policeman Jim Morrison memorial service (1992)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Speech

    Peter Deeley reports from the memorial service in St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden of Detective Constable Jim Morrison, stabbed to death trying to apprehend a handbag thief whilst off duty. His boss Chief...

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  10. Children not allowed to watch Romeo and Juliet (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    David Kermode reports on headmistress Jane Hardman Brown refusing to let children from Kingsmead Primary School on a Hackney estate watch Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Opera House,...

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