January 1982
Vol 33 No 1
Founded by the Earl of Harewood
Editor Associate Editors Editorial Board
Personal Assistant to the Editor Editorial Offices
HAROLD ROSENTHAL Alan Blyth, Rodney Milnes Elizabeth Forbes, Arthur Jacobs, Max Loppert, William Mann , Charles Osborne, Andrew Porter Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack
Deidre Ti lley 6 Woodland Rise, London N /0 JUH
In the News
Cavalli and' L'Egisto' by Jane Glover
The Art of Chaliapin by Victor Borovsky
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Readers' Letters
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Wexford 1981 by Elizabeth Forbes
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New regimes in Berlin - East and West by Ernst Krause and James He/me Sutcliffe 41 Obituary 45 Our Critics Abroad: Reports from Belgium, America, France, Germany (West) and Yugoslavia 46
COMING EVE TS - SUPPLEME T including plans for ENO, Covent Garden, WNO in London, East Berlin , Milan; Festivals 1982 and 1983; 'We hear that ... '; Opera Calendar British Opera Diary, including reviews of 'Alceste', 'La sonnambula' and 'Tosca' at Covent Garden; Weill and Poulenc at the Coliseum; 'La forza de! destino' in Cardiff; 'Partenope' at Sadler' s Wells Student Performance Book Review Record Reviews Classified Advertisements
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Front cover: Janet Baker as Alceste in the Royal Opera's new production of Gluck's opera
