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• Billed with the tagline "Band and Chorus of over 80 people", fast forward 100 years and the society is still proud to boast company sizes approaching or exceeding 100.

• Replica posters for this production are being sold on eBay as retro posters.

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• Mr H. Glover, who played Shadbolt the Gaoler was called away on the Thursday night performance, a member of the chorus, Mr Smith had to stand in.

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• Premiere production of this locally written opera by E Woodhead and F V Lawton of Huddersfield

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• A group split away in 1906 to concentrate on Light Operas and Operetta's - they became Halifax Light Opera Society in 1907

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• Opening production of the newly renovated Theatre Royal, setting a tradition for HAOS to feature at key opening, closing or re-naming venue productions throught out the town.

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• First try at the more popular operetta's starting with Gilbert and Sullivan

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• Most recent programmes have the 1903 production listed as 'Il Trovatore and Maritana' - however an opera of this name doesn't exist. It is two separate operas

• Listed in 1931 'Hit the Deck' programme as two separate productions presented on the same bill.

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• In the 1951 Girl Friend programme it says in its review of the 50 years that Il Trovatore and Maritana were two separate operas performed on alternate nights with alternate casts.

• Albert Barnes, playing Count Di Luna, lost his voice mid show week so Choral Master J D Town took his place

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• First production rehearsed in the Mechanics Institute, later named Marlborough Hall and now the Halifax YMCA theatre.