Camden Festival

Camdem Festival was an annual spring festival held in London, England, of which opera was the central feature.

Founded in 1954 and continuing until 1987, it was originally called the St Pancras Festival until 1965. It specialised in the revival of long-forgotten operas, some of which subsequently made their way back into the repertory. Performances were given at St Pancras Town Hall until 1969, and thereafter at the Bloomsbury Theatre (formerly Collegiate Theatre). It was superseded by the Bloomsbury Festival in 1988.

Among now well-known singers who appeared in the Festival was the young Kiri Te Kanawa who sang Elena in Rossini's La donna del lago in 1969 prior to joining the Covent Garden Opera in 1970.

Sources

• Anderson, James, The Complete Dictionary of Opera and Operetta, London: Wings Books, 1993 ISBN 0-517-09156-9