OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF HAREWOOD)

Vol 8 No 10

OCTOBER 1957

Editor: HAROLD ROSENfHAL Assistant Editor: JOHN WARRACK Associate Editors : PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE,

WILLIAM MANN, ANDREW PORTER, DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR

Contents

Cover : Birgit Nilsson as BrUnnhi lde Ph o to R ydberg Comment Kleiber at Darmstadt by John Russell Opera in English : Views from S in gers ·Rin g· ewcomers at Covent Garden Summer Festiva ls: 4

Bayreuth Sa lzburg Ed in burgh News Obituary Gramophone R ecords Readers· Letter

Opera Calendar page 606

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