in Royal Festival Hall - the 1950's

from Southbank Centre Archive:

I remember being taken to the Festival Ballet at the age of 5. We saw the Nutcracker Suite and I went backstage and have the autographs on my programme of Anton Gilpin and Antoinette Sibley who must have been child at the time.

cite as

Southbank Centre (ed.), Southbank Centre Archive. In Southbank Centre Archive. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1447171505892 accessed: 28 March, 2024 (Southbank Centre Archive, http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/about-us/history-and-archive/southbank-centre-archive)

location of experience: Royal Festival Hall

Listening to

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Ballet Suite, The Nutcracker, Op. 71a
written by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
performed by Anton Gilpin, Antoinette Sibley

Experience Information

Date/Time the 1950's
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by Liz Ford on Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:05:06 +0000
Approved on Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:33:20 +0000