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Beatrice & Benedict

Composer: Hector Berlioz

Librettist: Hector Berlioz, after William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing


Director: Elijah Moshinsky

Set Designer: Michael Yeargan

Costume Designer: Dona Granata

Lighting Designer: Howard Harrison


Production originated: 1994

Date of last performance: 2001

Chorus: 10 sopranos, 10 mezzos, 10 tenors, 10 basses

Actors / dancers: 2

On-stage musicians: 2 oboes, 3 trumpets, 1 guitar

Edition: OUP, English translation G Dunn (vocal), Bärenreiter (orchestral)

No of containers: 2