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August 1989 Vol 40 No 8
Rodn ey Milnes Max Loppen
A lan Bl yth, Hugh Canning, Andrew Clements, Elizabeth Forbes, Arrhur Jacob s, William Mann, Charles Osborne, Andrew Porter,
Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack
Noel Goodwin Richard Fairman
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Jinxed 'Trovatore' by Rodney Milnes
Readers' Letters
Kupfer and the Komische in con versation with Hugh Canning
In the ews
Tenor of the Three Glorious Days by Alastair Macaulay
Zinka Milanov: an appreciatio n by Alan Blyth
Obituary
Towards a definition of opera by Wallace Dace
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British Opera Diary, including reviews of 'Carmen' at Earls Court; WNO's 'Ariadne auf Naxos' and 'La sonnambu!a'; ENO's
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Front cover : Eva Randova and Placido Domingo as Azucena and
Manrico in the Royal Opera's new production of 'II trovatore'
(photo: Catherine Ashmore)