Founded by the Earl of Harewood

Vol 19 No 2

FEBRUARY 1968

Edito r: H A R O L D R O S E N T H A L

Deputy Editor : ART H R JA co B s Overseas ews Editor: ALAN BLYTH

Editorial Board : PHIUP HOPE-WALLACE, WILLIAM MA A1'1DREW PORTER, DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR, JOH \VARRA K

CONTENTS

1 n th e t ew

A T enor in Heaven by Lotte Lehmann page 96

97

'Bank Ban· - Hungary· Nationa l Opera by George Badacsonyi J 05 Lohengrin for Twopence hy H. Powell Lloyd J l 0 Munich's 'Macbeth· : Why Pretend? by Pete r Hutchinson 117

a nd criticism of other overseas p rformances in Germany. America. Austria , Argentina. Canada. E ire. Ital y OMI G EVE TS - SUPPLEME T

including plans for Covent Garden. Sadler' Well dinburgh Fe tival. Cata ni a , Turin , onte Ca rlo; ·we hear that ... · ; Opera Ca lendar. Februa ry- March Pucci ni's 'SwallO\ · and other new I ecords by Harold Rosenthal and rthur Jacobs Reader.· Letters Victo r De Sabata -- A Memoir by F li x prahamia n London Opera Diary including re,·iew of 'Otell o· a t

Covent Garden and 'Rigoletto· a t Sadl er' Well Yorkshire Opera by William Mann lster Opera by William Mann tudent P erforma nce On T ele isio n Obitua ry

125- 135

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