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1995 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations...
and Canada joins 183 other countries in commemorating the event. The cultural centrepiece of our celebrations will be a production of the late Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde. Artistic Director and Conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt calls the piece, "...a universal story that brings a message of peace for our planet..."
Britten's opera, which had its premiere at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1958, was based on Noye's Fludde or Noah's Flood, a 16th century Chester Miracle play which told the...