Founded by th e Earl of Harell'ood

Vol 18 No. 11

NOVEMBER 1967

Editor: HAR OLD R O SE TH A L

Deputy Editor: ART H R J Ac ons Overseas News Editor: ALAN BLYTH

Editorial Board: PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE, \\"ILLI AM MA N, A DREW PORTER, DESM01 D SHAWE-TAYLOR, JOHN \\ "ARR ACK

CONTENTS

Editor·s Comment : Sa dl e r" s Well s an d Our~elve:; H a rold Rosentha l's reports from Toronto and Montreal Introd ucing 'A Penny for a Song· by Colin Graham The Disaster and 'The Decision · by Maurice Lindsay Schumann-Hein le a nd 'George Washingto n· by

E. R omayne Simmonds (with D . J. Holl a nd) ... And ye t more Festivals The Bol~hoi at Montreal by M a rtin Bernheimcr and other overseas reports from Albania . America, Austria , Eire. Germany (East and West). Ttal y, Japan COMI G EVENTS - SUPPLEME T

including plan s for Sadler" s Well s. Covent Garden , Seattle, Ne w Orlea ns, Phi ladelphia. Sa lzburg; Readers· Letters; 'We hea r that .. : ; Opera Calenda r ; Sa dl e r" s Wells Stati stics; Spotli ght ; on telev isio n and radi o Brief Chronicles from America . France. Germany (West) ,

Swi tzer land . U.S.S.R. Opera Fifty Yea rs Ago . .. and Twenty- Five Yea rs Ago Obituary Barbiro lli's 'Butte rfl y' - and other grar.,opho ne records hy Alan Blyth Coming BBC Broadcasts London Op:c: ra Diary 'Carmen' in Cardiff

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