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Statue of Ralph Vaughan Williams in Dorking, Surrey (UK)
The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

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  • Note in the score to The Poisoned Kiss (1936) quoted in, Michael Kennedy, A catalogue of the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Oxford University Press, 1996, p.157.