Founded by 1he E:arl of Harewood September 1990 Edi1or 1953-86 Harold Rose111 hal, 08£ Volume 41 No 9

Rodney Milnes Max Loppert

Alan Blyth, Hugh Canning, Andrew Clements, Rich ard Fairman, Elizabeth Forbes, Arthur Jacobs, Charles Osborne, Andrew Porter,

Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack

Noel Goodwin

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Editor Associate Editor Editorial Board

Overseas News Editor Administrati ve Director Editorial Offices

Health warning by the Editor

Joan Cross-a birthday celebration by Lord Harewood

In the News

OPERA/ GTO Competition-part 1 Berg: the hidden agenda by Andrew Clements

Readers' Letters

Fritz Wunder li ch: unforgettable, unforgotten by Hugh

Canning

T yrrell on Czech opera by Alena Nemcovd Hoffmann's musical tales by John Warrack Our Critics Abroad: reports from America, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany (West), Germany

(DDR), Italy, Switzerland COMING EVENTS SUPPLEMENT

including plans for the UK houses, Miami, Toronto, Paris , Opera du Rhin , Frankfurt, Rome, Ven ice, Madrid,

Wexford; 'We hear that ... '

Obituary

British Opera Diary , including reviews of Scottish Opera's

'Madama Butterfly'; 'Boheme', 'Guillaume Tell' and 'Arabella' at Covent Garden; English Bach Festival's

'Idomeneo'; the premiere of 'The Intelligence Park'

Fringe Performances Student Performances

In Concert At the Musica l Record Reviews Classified Advertisements

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Front cove r: Joan Cross a Sieglinde, Ellen Orford and Fiordi ligi;

Fritz Wunderlich as Don Ottavio and Tamino. Cover de ign by Jo Angell, Paton Walker A ociares