OPERA Vol 3 No 10

OCTOBER 1952

Editor: THE EARL OF HAREWOOD

Assistant Editor : HAROLD D. ROSENTHAL

Contents

Cover: Mathieu A hlersmeyer as Mathis Photo Nonvard Ing lis Summer Festi va ls : rv

Edinbu rgh by the Earl of Harewood page 580

Sal zburg

590

by William 1\llann , Andreu, Porter and Donald Mitchell Bayreuth ( ii) 597 by Harold Rosenthal Munich (ii) 600 by Harold Rosenthal Aix and its eighbours 602 by the Earl of Hare )\/ood I .S .C. M. Festival 609 by Hans Keller Background to 'Un Ba ll o in Maschera' by Erhrnrd J. Dent News Opera Ca lend a r

611

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