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What are some of Benjamin Britten operas?

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In his operas which include Paul Bunyan (1941) Peter Grimes (1945) The Rape of Lucretia (1946) The Turn of the Screw (1954) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960) and Death in Venice (1973) he displayed a sensitivity to text and a fondness for variation technique dynamic dissonance and the use of ground basses.

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