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Mary Myfanwy Piper (/məˈfɑːnw/;[1] Welsh: /məˈvanuj/; 28 March 1911 – 18 January 1997) was a British art critic and opera librettist.

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Myfanwy Piper

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Mary Myfanwy Piper (/məˈfɑːnwiː/; Welsh: /məˈvanuj/; 28 March 1911 – 18 January 1997) was a British art critic and opera librettist. Mary Myfanwy Evans...

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Piper family

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art critic Myfanwy Piper. Their sons Edward and Sebastian Piper were also artists. The sons of Edward and Pru Piper, Luke and Henry Piper, are a painter...

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List of compositions by Benjamin Britten

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Screw, Op. 54: Opera in a prologue and two acts, 101'. Libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after the novella by Henry James. Premiered on 14 September 1954 at...

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Edward Piper

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Blake Christmas Piper (1938–1990) was an English painter. Edward Piper was the eldest son of the artist John Piper and his wife Myfanwy. He was educated...

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Frances Spalding

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poet Stevie Smith and a biography of John and Myfanwy Piper. When reviewing John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art, The Independent said of Spalding...

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North London Collegiate School

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O'Toole (actress) Ruth Padel (poet) Pat Phillips (diplomat, ambassador) Myfanwy Piper [née Evans](1911–1997) (librettist) Jessie Pope (1868–1941)(poet) Anna...

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Alfred Deller

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BBC, is now commercially available and finds Deller in fresher voice; Myfanwy Piper described his singing of Oberon as "unearthly". Lutenist Desmond Dupré...

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1997 in the United Kingdom

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railway historian (born 1907) 18 January – Myfanwy Piper, art critic, opera librettist, and wife of John Piper (born 1911) 19 January – Richard E. Jennings...

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Benjamin Britten

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Switzerland, the US and Yugoslavia. In September 1970 Britten asked Myfanwy Piper, who had adapted the two Henry James stories for him, to turn another...

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Owen Wingrave

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an opera in two acts with music by Benjamin Britten and libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after a short story by Henry James. It was originally written for televised...

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Luke Piper

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Spalding, Frances (2009). John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in art. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-956761-4. Luke Piper[dead link], Somerset Art Works...

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Reynolds Stone

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have been two collections of Stone's wood engravings, the first by Myfanwy Piper, the second, more definitive, with an introduction by Kenneth Clark...

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List of University of Oxford people

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Emma Kirkby (Somerville) Robert Lloyd (Keble) Peter Pears (Hertford) Myfanwy Piper (St Hugh's) Musicologists Barry Cooper (University) Edmund Fellowes...

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Fawley Bottom

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is in the civil parish of Fawley. The artist John Piper and his wife, the librettist Myfanwy Piper, were notable long-term residents of Fawley Bottom...

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Latin mnemonics

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Latin mnemonic that he had found in a Latin grammar book belonging to Myfanwy Piper's aunt for Miles' "malo" song. Jacques Brel wrote a song in 1962 about...

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Deaths in January 1997

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singer. Diana Lewis, 77, American film actress, pancreatic cancer. Myfanwy Piper, 85, British art critic and opera librettist. Gilberto Martínez Solares...

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Stratford Shakespeare Festival production history

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MacDermot The Turn of the Screw – composed by Benjamin Britten, libretto by Myfanwy Piper Peer Gynt – by Henrik Ibsen The Two Gentlemen of Verona – by William...

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Sizewell Hall

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Latin Primer from Sizewell Hall School gave to Benjamin Britten and Myfanwy Piper the words for Miles's Latin Benedicite in Britten's opera The Turn of...

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Geoffrey Grigson

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(1948). Piper, John (ed.). AN ENGLISH FARMHOUSE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD (1st ed.). Max Parrish. Spalding, Frances (2009), John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives...

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List of opera librettists

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Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934) for Arthur Sullivan: The Beauty Stone Myfanwy Piper (1911–1997) for Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice, Owen Wingrave, The...

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Sydney Chamber Opera

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Wagner) – WP dir. Netta Yashchin (2013) Owen Wingrave (Benjamin Britten / Myfanwy Piper) – AP dir. Imara Savage (2013) Exil (Giya Kancheli) – AP dir. Adena...

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