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The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

Source

  • Note in the score to The Poisoned Kiss (1936) quoted in, Michael Kennedy, A catalogue of the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Oxford University Press, 1996, p.157.