Founded by th e Earl of Harewood

Vol 15 No 9

SEPTEMBER 1964

Editor : HAR O L D R O SEN TH AL

Assistant Editor : A R TH u R J A c o B s Editorial Board : P H I L I P H O P E - W ALL A C E

WI L LI AM M A N, A DREW PORTER D E S M ON D S H AWE - TAYLOR, JOHN WARR A CK

CONTENTS

Editor"s Comment : ·words. Word s. Words'

Doubt about The Ring' by Victor Gollancz

A Chronicle of 'Faust' by Harold Rosenthal page 582

583

590

Opera-Going in Moscow by Joel Egan and reports fr om Rome, Milan , Washin gton . Buenos Aires, Paris, Wiesbaden, Lisbon. Zagreb oming vent including 'We hear that P lans, a nd Opera Calendar

European Opera House

Co ent Garden Statistics. 1963- 4 Obituary

Gramophone Records

Book Review

595

601

608 625 626 631

Twenty-Five Years Ago

634

London Opera Diary including reviews of 'Semete· and 'Richard I'

Readers' Letters

634

638