OPERA (Founded by t he EARL OF H AREWOOD)

Vol 12 No 2

FEBRUARY 1961

Editor: HAROLD ROSENTHAL A ssista n t Editor: ARTIILR JAC0 £3S Editori a l Bo c! r d : PH ILIP HOPE-WALLACE.

W ILLI A~! MANN. ANDREW PORTER. DESMOND SH.\ W E-TAYLOR. JOHN W.A RRACI(

Contents

Cover: Patricia Kern as Rosina Photo Guy Gravell

Comment-A Question o f Sta ndards

On the Road to "Fidel io · ( 1814) bY Emil_,. Anderson

Klemperer·s Operatic Career page 81

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La Sca la·s . 1ew Season b \" Harold Rosenthal and World R rport 1 from Napl('s. Rom e. Berlin. Hamlm rg. Dallas. Chicago. New York , Boston. V ienna

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Coming Events

Summer Festi va ls. 196 1

Obituary

G ramophone Records Reviewed

Opera Diary Covent Garden. Sadler·1 Wells, Royal F('stival Hall. B.B .C. Tele vision and Sound, Oxford Uni versi1y Oprra Club

Readers· Letters

Opera Calendar

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