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    Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former...
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    major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the...
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    Covent Garden is a London Underground station serving Covent Garden and the surrounding area in the West End of London. It is on the Piccadilly line between...
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    Church is a Church of England parish church located in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, central London. It was designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission...
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    New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms, London, is the largest wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market in the United Kingdom. It covers a site of...
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  • was a fashionable nightclub located at 41–43 Neal Street in London's Covent Garden, known for hosting the flowering British punk music scene in its infancy...
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    notably at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden theatres. He became so dominant on the London comic stage that the harlequinade...
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    Salisbury is a Grade II listed public house at 91–93 St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden, London which is noted for its particularly fine late Victorian interior...
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    The Lamb and Flag is a Grade II listed public house at Rose Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2. The building is erroneously said to date back to Tudor...
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  • Look up Covent Garden in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Covent Garden is a district of London. Covent Garden may also refer to: Covent Garden, Cambridge...
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  • Ballet at Covent Garden", The Times, 25 April 1946, p. 6. Haltrecht 1975, pp. 59–60 Parry 2010, p. 179. Haltrecht 1975, p. 73. "Covent Garden", The Times...
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    The Covent-Garden Journal (modernised as The Covent Garden Journal) was an English literary periodical published twice a week for most of 1752. It was...
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    Webster, who ran the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet companies at Covent Garden, invited Davis to succeed Sir Georg Solti as principal conductor of...
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    German citizenship in 1953. In 1961, he became musical director of the Covent Garden Opera Company, London. During his 10-year tenure, he introduced changes...
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    performing in Malta, she auditioned for Frederick Gye, the manager of Covent Garden in London. He was impressed by her talent and signed her to a five-year...
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    in Covent Garden. Along with English National Opera, it is one of the two principal opera companies in London. Founded in 1946 as the Covent Garden Opera...
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    theatre. In cooperation with John Rich he started his third company at Covent Garden Theatre. Rich was renowned for his spectacular productions. He suggested...
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    Maiden Lane is a street in Covent Garden, London, that runs from Bedford Street in the west to Southampton Street in the east. The painter J. M. W. Turner...
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    Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, published from 1760 to 1794, was an annual directory of prostitutes then working in Georgian London. A small pocketbook...
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    renamed the Sadler's Wells Ballet, moved into the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden where Fonteyn's most frequent partner throughout the next decade was...
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  • Symphony Orchestra (1950–53), musical director of The Royal Opera, Covent Garden (1955–58). In 1957, he conducted and recorded the World premiere Berlioz's...
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    Henrietta Street is a street in Covent Garden, London, that was once home to a number of artists and later became the location of many publishing firms...
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    style, and the Banqueting House, Whitehall, as well as the layout for Covent Garden square which became a model for future developments in the West End...
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    The White Lion is a pub in Covent Garden, London, on the corner of James Street and Floral Street. There has been a pub called the White Lion on the site...
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    two sites, White Lodge, Richmond Park (for students aged 11–16) and Covent Garden (for students from 16 to 19 years old) based in purpose-built studios...
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    of Music with Clive Carey. She was engaged by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as a utility soprano, and made her debut there on 28 October 1952,...
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    London Transport Museum (category Covent Garden)
    The London Transport Museum (LTM) is a transport museum based in Covent Garden, London. The museum predominantly hosts exhibits relating to the heritage...
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    Thomas Arne (category People from Covent Garden)
    West End's Drury Lane and Covent Garden. He wrote many operatic entertainments for the London theatres and pleasure gardens, as well as concertos, sinfonias...
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    the 1910s until the start of the Second World War, staging seasons at Covent Garden, Drury Lane and His Majesty's Theatre with international stars, his...
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  • pub near Covent Garden. He laments his loss with his friend Bob Rusk (Barry Foster), who runs a fruit and vegetable stall in Covent Garden. Rusk consoles...
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