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and Rodney Milnes era Off the rec rd By the Editor Unenchanted evening Andrew Porter at I ndeb urn s new 'Figar ' Readers· Lellers People 265: peight Jenkins Andrew Clark People's pera John Allison in I racl Working for the Wagners Keith Warner p ra ewsdesk nver ati n with raft Michael Tanner ' nlonio· George l oo1J1is on a forgotten anni er ar bituary Opera round the World: report~ rrom m rica rgenti na ran e, German I rael, Italy, ew Zealand, Taiwan

MI G E E TS S PPL ME T including plan for the new . ea n in Vi nna (Volk. oper), Brus els, Liege, Prague, Lyon, Pari ( pera- omi 1ue),

tra bourg, Berlin (Deut. che Oper), ~ I A i , Barcelona Opera b k Briti 11 Opera Diary: 'Radami to' at Opera rth, WNO' 'Turn or the crew' and ' armen'; 'M ister. inger' and ' rma' at o ent Garden; 'Jenufa' at Glyndebourn ; ' alome' at e ttish p ra; 'Ernani', 'Yevgeny Onegin' and ' ixon in hina' at E O; 'The Philo. opher' tone' in Hamp Lead· 'Beatric t B , ned i t' at th Barbican Opera on the fringe pera on tele i ion Opera on dis las iried adverti emenL I can't Ii e without. .. pera Michael Kennedy Orth