Twice Through the Heart notes. 7. "Interlude" — Instrumental section.<br> 8. "Landslide" — Her husband is buried in land, she in prison.<br> 9. "China Cup" — She is locked in with only the decorated china cup which she has taken from home to prison. "Twice Through the Heart" was first performed on 13 June 1997 at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall during the 50th Aldeburgh Festival. Sally Burgess was accompanied by the ENO Contemporary Opera Studio conducted by Nicholas Kok. The companion piece was the chamber opera "The Country of the Blind" which Turnage had composed relatively quickly in order to make up a
Aldeburgh Music Artistic Direction of Britten, Pears and Crozier, with the Earl of Harewood as President and Elizabeth Sweeting as General Manager. Needing to expand the Festival into larger premises, in 1967, the Festival management acquired a lease on disused Victorian buildings at Snape Maltings, and converted the largest of the redundant malthouses into Snape Maltings Concert Hall. The Snape Maltings Foundation Ltd was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee, no. 980281, on 21 May 1970 under the name of Snape Maltings Foundation Ltd. to manage the Snape buildings and develop further buildings on the site. The initial subscribers were Benjamin