NOVEMBER 1983

Vol 34 No 11

Founded by 1he Earl of Harewood

Edi1or Associa1e Edi1ors Edi1oria l Board

Personal Assis1a111 10 1he Edi1or Edi1orial Off ice

H A R.01 I) R.OSENTHA I . Ol3L:. Alan Bl yth, Rodney Milnes Eli zabeth Forbes, Arthur Jacobs, Max Loppert , William lann, Charles O sborne, A ndre w Porter Desmond hawe-Taylor, John Warrack

Deidre Till ey 6 Woodland Rise, London N IO JUH

The Met. celebrate it Centenary by 1he Edi1or Met. Cent e nary : Ga tti , Johnso n , Bing by Manin Mayer In the New En g li sh Opera Cr itici m in the lnterwar Year

6. eville Cardu s of 'Th e Man che ter Guardian': Pa r t I by J ohn S1ea11e

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Fe ti,al Pot cript, with report from Cambridge ( 1205), Cheltenham ( 1205), Drottningho lm (1232), Flanders (1225), Inn brucJ... (1204), l(arl ruhe (1227), Lausanne (1233) . Ludwigsburg ( 1229), Marlia (1199), Martigues (1227), Montepulciano (1204), Munich (1231), Pesaro (1 196), Ravenna (1200), Recklinghausen (1230), Rome (1201), Savonlinna (1207) and Waterloo (1235) 1196-1 23 7

COM I G EVENTS-SUPPLEMENT including plan for Covent Garden, Engli h Philadelphia, Seattle, Australian Opera, Florence, Turin, Monaco; 'We hear that .

ational Opera, Vienna , Paris,

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Our Critics Abroad : Reports from Au tria, France, Germany, South Africa. and Sweden

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Briti h Opera Diary, including review of ENO' 'Toussaint', 'Ariadne on axos', 'Rigoletto'; Covent Garden's Manchester eason and 'Lulu', 'La clemenza di Tito', 'L'Enfant et le sortileges' and 'The ightingale'; W O' 'Peter Grimes' and 'The Magic Flute' 1245 Record Reviews 1268 Cla sified advertisements 1272

Front cover : The Met.' s four gener al manager 1908- 1983: Top ( l. ) Giulio Gatt iCasazza, (r .) Edward Johnson ( in costume as Peter Ibbetson), bo u om ( I. ) Si r Rudol f Bing, (r.) Anthony A. Bli