Founded by 1/1 e Earl of Hareirood

Vol IJ No. 9

SEPTEMBER I 966

Ed ito r : HAROLD ROS E THAL

Deputy Editor: A RT H u R J Ac o B

Over5eas Tews Editor: ALAN BLYTH

Editorial Boa rd : PHI LIP HOPE-\\'ALLACE. \\'I LUAM 1AN:',

.'\ 1 DRE\\' PORTER. DESMO. D SHAWE-TAYLOR. JOH \\'ARR,\CK:

CONTENTS

Editor's Comment : Forwa rd to 1970! Luigi Lablache by Herbert Weinstock The acts of Life by John Coast

Vi ll a SanfAgata by Lotte Meitner-Graf Film and 'Lulu' by orbert Weis Covent Garden Stati tic , 196 - 6 COMI G EVENT - UPPL ME T

including plans for adler' Well s, Welsh ational Opera and English Opera Group ; 'We hear that . . .'; and Home Opera House alendar, September-October Gramophone Records by Alan Blyth & Harold Rosenthal The First Boulez-Wagner production by Hildegard Weber and overseas reports from Germany, America, Belgium, Canada, Me ico, Poland Brief Chronicle from America, Austria Czechoslovakia. Eire.

F rance, German (We t), Germany (East), Ital y, weden Obituary Opera Twenty-Five Year Ago Book Re iews by Philip Hope-Wallace and Harold Rosenthal London Opera Diary including reviews of 'Orlando' at Sadler·s Well and 'Mose and Aaron' at Covent Garden Student Performance Readers· Letters page 688

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Classified adver1ise11 1e11 ts are on p. 760