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===Covent Garden Festival===
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The '''Covent Garden Festival''', also known as the '''BOC Covent Garden Festival''' due to sponsorship by [[BOC (company)|BOC]], is or was a festival of music and musical theatre staged across various venues in early summer each year. It was run by administrator Kenneth Richardson from 1996 to 2001. Its impending closure was announced in late 2001, owing to lack of sponsorship for 2002.<ref name=webb>{{cite web| url=https://www.playbill.com/article/uks-covent-garden-festival-to-close-com-99129| first= Paul| last=Webb| date=13 October 2001| website= [[Playbill]]| title=UK's Covent Garden Festival to Close| access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref> However, official company records show incorporation in 1989 and ongoing registration {{as of|2022|lc=yes}}.<ref>{{cite web | title=Covent Garden Festival Limited: Overview |website=[[GOV.UK]]: Find and update company information | date=5 December 1989 | url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02449397 | access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>

Venues used for the festival have included the [[Bow Street Magistrates' Court]];<ref name=webb/> the Covent Garden piazza; the [[Royal Opera House]]; [[Cochrane Theatre]], [[Holborn]]; [[Peacock Theatre]] in [[Kingsway, London|Kingsway WC2]], venues at [[Lincoln's Inn]] and [[Temple, London|The Temple]]; and the [[Royal Courts of Justice]] on [[The Strand, London|The Strand]].<ref name=dunnett>{{cite web | last=Dunnett | first=Roderic | title=The garden of earthly delights | website=The Independent | date=11 May 2000 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-278675.html | access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>

Performances at the festival include:
*[[Handel]]'s ''[[Flavio]]'' (1994), by the (Irish) [[Opera Theatre Company]]<ref>{{cite news | title=Fine tuning | newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] | date=21 March 2013 | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/fine-tuning-1.30183 | access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[Noël Coward]]'s ''[[After the Ball (musical)|After the Ball]]'' (1999), at the Peacock Theatre, directed by [[Paul Curran (director)|Paul Curran]]<ref>{{cite web | title=After the Ball | website=Concord Theatricals | url=https://www.concordtheatricals.co.uk/p/2125/after-the-ball | access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>