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Melbourne Olympic Arts Festival

The Melbourne Olympic Arts Festival was an arts festival held in conjunction with the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne was the first Olympic Games to have an arts festival as part of the official program.

Events
Events included: • Music for the People concert produced by Hector Crawford • The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust presented two operas by Mozart, as well as the plays Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and The Tintookies. Guests included Oscar Hammerstein and his Australian wife Dorothy, and Sir Dallas Brooks. Events not officially part of the festival but held in association with it included: • the Australian musical Under the Coolibah Tree • the Olympic Follies • Thunder Rock by Robert Ardrey, at the Melbourne Little Theatre ==References==
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