National Opera Studio
National Opera Studio. Training sch. for opera singers, providing one-year courses for advanced post-graduate trainees. Dir., Michael Langdon 1978–86, Richard Van Allan 1986–2001, Donald Maxwell from 2001. Established in 1978 as replacement for London Opera Centre (founded 1963), whose first dir. was H. Procter-Gregg, succeeded by James Robertson 1964–78. The Centre took over the work of the National Sch. of Opera, directed from 1948 by Joan Cross and Anne Wood.
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