August 1997 Vo lume 48 No 8

Edi1or Rodnev Mi ln es Associa1e Ediwr Max Loppe n Assis1r1111 Edi1or John Alliso n Ad111 i1 1is1 raror Alice Lindsay Ediwrial Board Alan Blyth Hugh Canning Andrew Clark Andrew Clements Ri cha rd Fa irman roe! Goodwin Charl es Osborne Andrew Porter John Warrack

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Profe sional s v amate urs Th e Editor Twice through Turnage Andrew Clements People 23 1: Jea n Rigby Rod11ev Milnes Nymph of th e marsh R onald Crich ro 11 o n ·Pl a tee· Opera ewsdesk What ·s in a name? Frederic Spotrs o n a Wagner autobiograp hy Obituary Opera Around th e World: reports from America. Austri a . Be lgium. Croa ti a. France. G erm any. It a ly. Lebanon. Monaco. Sweden 937- 951 COM I G EVENTS SUPPLEME T

including E o ·s plans fo r th e 1997-8 season: Prague. Copenhagen . Strasbourg. Berlin (D e utsche Oper and Komische Oper). Amsterdam . Stockholm, Zurich: ·we hea r th a t .. .': Opera calenda r home and abroad 951 Opera books 970 British Opera Diary: Maxwe ll

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