April 1981

Yol 32 No 4

Founded by the Earl of Harewood

Ediior

HAROLD ROSE THAL Alan Blyth, Rodney Milnes

Associaie Edirors Editorial Board Elizabeth Forbes, Arthur Jacobs, lax Loppen,

William Mann, Charles Osborne, Andrew Porter Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack

Personal Assistani ro the Editor Editorial Offices Deidre Til ley 6 Woodland R ise, Lo11do11 N/0 J UH

Wandering through the ew Grove by 1he Editor Verdi and 'Macbeth' by Elijah Moshinsky Martinu's 'Greek Passion' by Brian Large In the rews The Liebermann Prize Opera in Berl in by Elizabeth Forbes

3 : The Komische Oper

Readers' Letters

338 340 344 350 353

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Our Critics Abroad: Reports from France, America, Argentina, Germany (DDR), Germany (West), Ital y, Poland, Switzerland 363

COMING EVE1 TS-SUPPLEME T Including plans for Chicago, Toronto, Sydney. Aix-enProvence. Bayreuth . Wiesbaden, Zurich; 'We hea r that .. . ': Opera Calendar 369-384

New Records

Obituary

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489

Briti sh Opera Diary including reviews of W O's 'Rodelinda': 'Madam Butterfly' at the ENO; and 'Lulu' at Covent Garden 411 Student Performances 422 Classified advertisements 432

Front cover: Karan Armstrong a::; Lulu and Gunter Reich as Dr Schon in 'Lulu' at Covent Garden