November 1975

Vol 26 No 11

Founded by rhe Earl of Harewood

Editor

HAROLD ROSENTHAL

Associate Editor Alan Blyth Editorial Board Elizabeth Forbes, Arthur Jacobs, William Mann,

Rodney Milnes, Charles Osborne, Andrew Porter, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack

Personal Assistant to the Editor Caroline Hill Editorial Offices: 6 Woodland Rise, London NJO JUH

An attempted portrait of Siegfried Wagner by Friede/ind Wagner

In the News

Festival Postscript

Orff and Verdi in Munich by Andrew Porter

Florentine Vicissitudes by Susan Gould

Phoenix Opera in Yugoslavia by Elizabeth Forbes

Our critics Abroad: Reports from Germany, America, Austria, Finland, France, Norway, Spain, Sweden, USSR

COMING EVENTS - SUPPLEMENT including plans for English Music Theatre Company, ENO, Stockholm; 'We hear that .. .'; Opera Calendar Record Reviews Readers' Letter Books received Two more 'Deaths in Venice' by James He/me Sutcliffe Obituary London Opera Diary including reviews of 'Siegfried' 'Rheingold' and 'Die WalkUre' at Covent Garden and 'Don Carlos' at the Coliseum Handel opera at Henley-on-Thames Front cover: Donald McIntyre as Wotan, Elizabeth Bainbridge as Erda in 'Siegfried' at Covent Garden

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