OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF HAREWOOD)

Vol 11 No 12

DECEMBER 1960

Editor: HAROLD ROSENTHAL Assistant Editor : JOHN WARR.-\CK Associate Editors: PH ILIP HOPE-WALi.ACE.

WILLIAM MA~1'. A ORE\\. PORTER. DESM01 D SH.-\\VE-TAYLOR

Contents Cover : Regine Crespin as the Marscha ll in Photo Guy Gravell Comment In and Out of Britten ·s ·Dream· by Donald Mitchell The New Leipzig Opera :

The Building by Siegmund W o ffi ng The Opening Events by Alan Bush and Ossia Trillin g Bel Strepito by T om Shearer ews

Tncluding contributions froi/1 Richard R ePa.H. Roger Dettmer, Alfred Frankenstein, Eduardo Arnosi, Joseph Wechsberg, H. H. Stuckenschmidt, Andrew M cCredie. Greville R o th on. and M arcel Senecha11d Gramophone Record

Book Reviews

Opera Diary

Reader ' Letters

Christmas Competition

Opera Calendar page 796

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