August 1971

Vol 22 No 8

Founded by the Earl of Harewood

Editor

HAROLD ROSENTHAL Alan Blyth

Associate Editor Editorial Board Arthur Jacobs, William Mann, Charles Osborne,

Andrew Porter, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack Editorial Offices: 6 Woodland Rise. London NJO 3UH

Contents Solti's Covent Garden - and after by th e Editor

West .Berlin's Opera by Horst Koegler

Daniel-Francois Auber (1782-1871) by John W. Klein

Covent Garden 's new 'Tr istan' by Harold Rosenthal

Sir Tyro ne Guthrie: An appreciation by Joan Cross

Lord Sheffield: Singers ' Friend by Michael Langdon

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Our critics abroad: Reviews of performances in America, Austria, France, Germany (West and East), Italy, Portugal and Switzerland 700 COMING EVENTS - SUPPLEMENT including plans for Covent Garden , Welsh National Opera, Netherlands Opera, Paris; 'We hear that .. . '; Opera Calendar 705-716 Record Reviews by Harold Rosenthal and Alan Bly th 717 50 Years Ago ... 25 Years Ago 741 Edgar Evans - Twenty-five Years at Covent Garden 742 Book Review 744 London Opera Diary 746 In .Birmingham 748 The Solti Decade - Statistics 749 Readers' Letters 752 Front Cover: Ludmila Dvorakova and Jess Thomas in 'Tristan und Isolde' at Covent Garden

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