OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF H AREWOOD)

Vol 7 No 12

DECEMBER 1956

Editor: HAROLD ROSE THAL Assistant Editor: JOH WARRACK Associate Editors : PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE

WILLIAM MANN, ANDREW PORTER DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR

Contents Cover: Marcella Pobbe a s Tchaikovsky's Joan of Arc Ph o to Ca valieri Comment Stamp Collecting- Musical and otherwise by Joan Cross and th e Editor 'O ciel ! Muoio!· by T . J. R y ar~ Hans Werner Henze·s 'Konig Hirsch· b y H . H . Stuckenschmidt (Translated by Erika Mann) Edith Furmedge-An Appreciation by Cedric Wall is News Gramophone Records Book Review Christmas Competition : Part l Opera Diary R eaders· Letters Opera Calendar page 716

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