OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF HAREWOOD)

Vol 7 No 8

AUGUST 1956

Editor: HAROLD ROSE 'THAL Assistant Editor: ANDREW PORTER Associate Editors: PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE

WILLIAM MAN, DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR

Contents Cover: Tito Gobbi as Rigoletto Comment

Opera in Czechoslovakia by Desmond Shawe-Taylor page 458

459

Readers· Letters

468

Peter Cornelius and 'The Barber of Baghdad' 469 by K. W. Bartlett Strawinsky's Conception of Opera 473 by Gunther Rennert (translated by Anne Ross) Summer Festivals: 2 4 75

Florence Aldeburgh Glyndebourne

News Gramophone Records Opera Diary

487 507 511

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