OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF HAREWOOD)

Vol 8 No 2

FEBRUARY 1957

Editor: HAROLD ROSENTHAL

Assistant Editor: JOHN WARRACK

Associate Editors: PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE

WILLIAM MANN, ANDREW PORTER DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR

Contents

Cover: Sylvia Fisher and John Lanigan in 'Jenufa' Photo Houston Rogers Comment ·Jenufa· at Covent Garden by Desmond Shawe-Taylor Opera in English by Andrew Porter Opera on the Gramophone I : 'Die Meistersinger' News Gramophone Records Book Reviews Opera Diary Opera on the Radio 1955-6 Readers· Letters Opera Calendar page 72

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