Founded by 1he Earl of Harewood Edi1or 1953 -86 Harold Rosemhal, OBE

January 1989 Volume 40 No 1

RODNEY MILNES

Max Loppert

Alan Blyth, Hugh Canning, Elizabeth Forbes, Arthur Jacobs,

Will iam Mann, Charles Osborne, Andrew Porter,

Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack

Noel Goodwin Richard Fairman

Deidre Tilley

Ja Mountgrove Road, London N5 2LU Telephone: 01-359 1037 FAX: 01-354 2700

Editor A ssociate Ediror Editorial Board

Overseas News Ediror A ssistant Ediror Administrati ve Director Edirorial Off ices

'Planet 8': a total mismatch by Andrew Clements

In the News

People 155: Willard White by Max Loppert

Readers' Letters

'Cuteness was all ' -operatic Shirley Temples by John Rosselli

Irmgard Seefried: An appreciation by Alan Bly th

Obituary

Reimann: musical vision by Horst Koegler

Book Reviews

Wexford 1988 by Rodney Milnes

Our Critics Abroad: reports from America, Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile , France, Germany, Italy, Japan,

Norway and Switzerland

COMING EVENTS-SUPPLEMENT

including plans for Covent Garden, ENO, Scottish Opera,

WNO , Sadler's Wells Theatre, Opera 80, Santa Fe,

Palermo , Reggio Emilia; 'We hear that . .. '

Record Reviews

British Opera Diary, including re vie ws of 'La Boheme' and 'Lucia di Lammermoor' in Leed s; Covent Garden's

'Manon'; and Theatre de Complicite's season at the

Almeida Theatre

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Fro nt cover: Glass's 'The Making of t he Representati ve for Planet 8' at th e London Coliseum

(Phot o: Catherine Ashmore)