The Top Ten Plays, Musicals and Operas at the KMT

From New Years Eve 1974

THE TOP TEN PLAYWRIGHTS

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1. ALAN AYCKBOURN 46,219

2. AGATHA CHRISTIE  43,359

3. NEIL SIMON 18,912

4. NOEL COWARD 17,682

5. FRANCIS DURBRIDGE 15,661

6. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 12,715

7. RICHARD HARRIS 11,211

8. TERENCE RATTIGAN 10,405

9. OSCAR WILDE 9,325

10. ALAN BENNETT 8,244

THE TOP TEN MUSICAL COMPOSERS

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1. RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN   52,451

2. LERNER & LOEWE 28,765

3. JERRY HERMAN  20,227

4.  COLE PORTER  19,860

5. DAVID HENEKER  17,843

6. LIONEL BART 17,754

7. BOCK & HARNICK 16,854

8. STEPHEN SCHWARTZ 16,086

9. KANDER & EBB 15,181

10. IRVING BERLIN  13,978

THE TOP TEN OPERA/OPERETTA COMPOSERS

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1. GILBERT & SULLIVAN 52,674

2. GIUSEPPE VERDI 16,120

4. JOHANN STRAUSS  11,333

5. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 10,943

6. JACQUES OFFENBACH 10,901

7. FRANZ LEHAR 7,871

8. GIACOMO PUCCINI 7,430

9. GEORGES BIZET 6,848

10. GAETANO DONIZETTI 3,732

A note on OPERA PRODUCTIONS at the Kenneth More Theatre

Opera has always featured heavily in the work of the KMT. In the early days this was provided by two very large and well known amateur opera companies – the Ivor Evans Opera Co and the Figaro Opera Group. These companies had disbanded by the early 1990s. From 1985 till 2004 the KMT formed its own opera company in association with New Decade Opera, a charity run by the late Edna Graham – a singer with credits at Covent Garden and Glyndebourne, etc – and a conductor of some note. The KMT’s opera company used young professional singers in the leading role, backed by specially recruited amateur choruses.

The KMT’s other operas have included:

BRITTEN, Benjamin 

ALBERT HERRING (1994) & THE LITTLE SWEEP (1987)

Last Updated - 16th February 2007

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