Brian Dickie

Instead a young, 26-year-old former Trinity College student, Brian Dickie was appointed; he had been with the Glyndebourne Touring Company and brought a fresh approach to programme planning.A new era of outstanding singing emerged, with the first operas in Russian (Glinka's Ivan Susanin) and Czech (Janacek's Katá Kabanová) and a new emphasis on the French repertory.
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With his remarkable success, particularly in one so young, Dickie was soon persuaded back to Glyndebourne.His successor in 1974, Thomson Smillie had been Publicity Officer at Scottish Opera.He maintained the three-opera format, for the first time defining them as comprising a singers' opera, a comedy and a thinking piece.Massenet was much neglected at the time and he staged Thaïs in his first season, starting a remarkable series of his operas over the years since.

Instead a young, 26-year-old former Trinity College student, Brian Dickie was appointed; he had been with the Glyndebourne Touring company and brought a fresh approach to programme planning.A new era of outstanding singing emerged, with the first operas in Russian (Glinka's Ivan Susanin) and Czech (Janác,ek's Katá Kabanová) and a new emphasis on the French repertory.
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With his remarkable success, particularly in one so young, Dickie was soon persuaded back to Glyndebourne.His successor in 1974, Thomson Smillie had been Publicity Officer at Scottish Opera.He maintained the three-opera format, for the first time defining them as comprising a singers' opera, a comedy and a thinking piece.