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« Reply #15 on: 12:46:50, 02-06-2007 »
Which opera ENDS with the sound of a cock crowing?  Wink
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« Reply #16 on: 22:25:13, 02-06-2007 »
Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel.
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« Reply #17 on: 06:11:32, 03-06-2007 »
The opera ending with a cock crowing (the last vocal sound to be heard) was first performed nearly a century later than R-K's COCKEREL!

     Clues = an English opera / world premiere outside the UK / UK premiere (in the summer!) in the SE of England  Cheesy
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« Reply #18 on: 08:46:36, 03-06-2007 »
So we're looking for an opera with a UK premiere at Glyndebourne not so long ago...Flight?
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« Reply #19 on: 10:03:09, 03-06-2007 »
Glyndebourne is correct, but it's another British composer (his name begins with a B, and the opera's plot is biblical). Clue = a da Vinci painting.

PS This was the only Glyndebourne opera where the long interval FOLLOWED the whole performance: I was lucky being able to return to London early!
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« Reply #20 on: 10:16:58, 03-06-2007 »
Then it must be Birtwistle's The Last Supper . What did you think of it? I don't know much Birtwistle at all and wished I could have seen Gawain. I'm planning on going to his new opera The Minotaur at the ROH next season.
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« Reply #21 on: 10:25:42, 03-06-2007 »
Yes, that's the one. THE LAST SUPPER was my first Birtwistle opera: I don't know or have any of his music, except a promotional Glyndebourne CD of highlights from the opera which I'd bought and heard before seeing the show. I did enjoy it a lot, though (needless to say) the difficult music makes no concessions to the audience, and I'm not that keen on contemporary opera. Conveniently, THE LAST SUPPER was the last performance of the 2001 GFO when those who stayed behind had THEIR last Festival supper (but I didn't!).
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« Reply #22 on: 22:06:35, 03-06-2007 »
Well, Glyndebourne are staging (!) The St Matthew Passion this year, so the Last Supper comes back as a theme, anyhow...
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« Reply #23 on: 10:20:51, 04-06-2007 »
Ho, RT! Hope they film this for DVD release.
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