OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF HAREWOOD)

Vol 5 No 2

FEBRUARY 1954

Editor: HAROLD ROSE THAL Assistant Editor: AND REW PORTER

Contents

Cover: Hermann U hde as Telramund Photo Liseloll e Strelmv Comment The Italian Opera Sea so n hy 'Viator' People xxi ii: Clemens Krau ss hy Ida Cook ·Faust" at the ktropolitan hy James Hinton, Jnr . Puppet Opera: an Edinburgh Experiment hy John A. Willings Summer Festival s, 1954 News Gramophone Reco rds Book Reviews lssay Dobrowen , An Appreciation hy Joan lngpen Opera Diary Readers ' Letters Opera Calendar page 73

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