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Other productions within Europe waited until the end of the Second World War, some notable ones being in January 1963 in London at Sadler's Wells Opera conducted by Colin Davis and in Berlin in September 1977 by the Komische Oper.
Declaring that he would exit the pop world " to study mime at Sadler's Wells ", Bowie nevertheless remained with the Lower Third.
At Sadler's Wells Theatre, Phelps brought back nearly all of Shakespeare's original text.
It was originally performed by Lesley Colier and Wayne Eagling himself at an Amnesty International gala in Drury Lane, but in 1984 the Royal Ballet School presented it again at the Sadler's Wells theater.
Keynes's personal interest in classical opera and dance led him to support the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and the Ballet Company at Sadler's Wells.
Unsurprisingly from the start the two organisations that received the largest grant from the new body were the Royal Opera House and Sadler's Wells.
The first performance of the 1869 Original Version abroad took place on 30 September 1935 at the Sadler's Wells Theatre.
It was produced by the Sadler's Wells Opera ( now English National Opera ) in January 1962, immediately after the Gilbert copyrights expired.
A centenary revival at Sadler's Wells in London restored the opera to almost its original first-night state.
After the expiration of the copyright on Gilbert and Sullivan works in 1961, and especially since the Sadler's Wells production and recording, various directors have experimented with restoring some or all of the cut material in place of the 1920s D ' Oyly Carte version.
A 1987 recording by the New Sadler's Wells Opera, for which David Russell Hulme was adviser, restored most of the surviving material from the first-night version, including " For thirty-five years I've been sober and wary ", as well as the extra music from the ghost scene.
In 1987, the New Sadler's Wells Opera produced Ruddigore using a new edition of the text that restored many of the passages that prior productions had cut.
These have included Tyrone Guthrie's 1960 production from Stratford, Ontario, seen on Broadway in 1960 and in London in 1962 and a New Sadler's Wells Opera Company production first seen on 4 June 1984 at Sadler's Wells Theatre, which was seen also in New York.
The première of Peter Grimes at Sadler's Wells in 1945 was his greatest success thus far.
Other buildings of note include the Peacock Theatre, the School's main lecture theatre, seating 999 persons, which by night serves as the West End base of Sadler's Wells.
According to Thoroughbred Times, Northern Dancer had at least eleven sons who became truly outstanding sires: Be My Guest, Danzig, El Gran Senor, Fairy King, Lyphard, Nijinsky, Northern Taste, Nureyev, Sadler's Wells, Storm Bird, and Vice Regent.
* The ballet Pomona, with music by Constant Lambert, choreography by Frederick Ashton and scenery and costumes by Vanessa Bell, first performed by the Vic-Wells Ballet at the Sadler's Wells Theatre on 17 January 1933.
* Sadler's Wells Theatre
The present day Sadler's Wells has survived as heir to this tradition, after being rebuilt many times and many changes of use including pleasure gardens, theatre, aquatic display venue, circus, music hall.
The name Finsbury is now most often used of the western part of the district, the home of the former Finsbury Town Hall, Finsbury Estate, Exmouth Market, the Sadler's Wells Theatre, Islington Local History Centre, Islington Museum and City University.
These included Sadler's Wells, London Spa and Clerkenwell.

Sadler's and opera
Two years after its premiere, the opera was given in Prague, and also in Germany in 1929, but it did not become really popular until a production by the Sadler's Wells company in London in 1964.
* March 12 – Heinrich Sutermeister's opera Romeo and Juliet receives its first UK performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, conducted by James Robertson.
Sadler's Wells, under Lilian Baylis, nurtured talent that led to the development of an opera company, which became the English National Opera ( ENO ), a theatre company, which evolved into the National Theatre, and a ballet company, which eventually became the English Royal Ballet.
Baylis acquired and rebuilt Sadler's Wells theatre in north London, a larger house, better suited to opera than the Old Vic.
However, for both aesthetic and financial reasons, by 1934 the Old Vic had become the home of the spoken drama, while Sadler's Wells housed the opera and ballet company, the latter of which had been founded by Baylis and Ninette de Valois in 1930.
Like Sadler's Wells, the Royal Opera House had presented no opera or ballet since 1939.
However, David Webster, who was appointed to run Covent Garden, though keen to secure de Valois ' ballet company for Covent Garden, did not want the Sadler's Wells opera company.
The departure of the ballet company to Covent Garden two months later deprived Sadler's Wells of an important source of income ; the ballet had been profitable and had since its inception subsidised the opera company.
He was keen to improve the dramatic aspects of opera production, and eminent theatrical directors including Michel Saint-Denis, George Devine and Glen Byam Shaw worked on Sadler's Wells productions in the 1950s.
Standards and company morale were improving ; The Manchester Guardian summed up the 1950 – 51 London opera season as " Excitement at Sadler's Wells: Lack of Distinction at Covent Garden " and judged Sadler's Wells to have moved " into the front rank of opera houses ".
When it became clear that this would require the Sadler's Wells company to tour for 30 weeks every year, and practically destroy its presence on the London opera scene, Tucker, his deputy Stephen Arlen, and his musical director Alexander Gibson resigned.
At the beginning of Baylis's management of Sadler's Wells, it was intended that the two theatres should each offer alternating programmes of drama and opera.
The Vic-Wells Opera Company was the name of the opera company performing at Sadler's Wells.
Similarly, the opera company toured to return as Sadler's Wells Opera Company, and it reopened the theatre with Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes.
The opera company moved out of Sadler's Wells Theatre to the London Coliseum in 1968 and was later renamed English National Opera.
Briefly in the 1980s, the theatre established the New Sadler's Wells Opera company to play Gilbert and Sullivan and other light opera.
Some of the drama and opera directors for whom he worked included Margaret Webster, Colin Graham, John Copley, Peter Dews and Rudolf Hartmann-with productions staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Old Vic, London ; Sadler's Wells Opera Company ( since 1974 English National Opera ), Sadler's Wells Theatre, London ; The Royal Opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London ; and numerous other national and international houses.
In May 1957 Sadler's Wells put on the opera The Moon and Sixpence, which they had commissioned, and two other major works were premiered that year, the Piano Concerto No. 1 ( Cyril Preedy and Barbirolli at the Cheltenham Festival ) and the Seven Songs, Op.

Sadler's and presented
She has presented live on BBC Two from the Royal Opera House ( Coppelia and The Nutcracker ) and from Sadler's Wells ( Rambert Dance Company ) as well as a live Proms performance on BBC1.
The UK premiere took place in London on 11 October 1933 at Sadler's Wells Theatre and the US premiere was presented on 27 December 1937 under the title of The Bumble-Bee Prince.

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