Founded by the Earl of Harewood

May 1985 Vol 36 No 5

HAROLD ROSENTHAL, OBE

Rodney Milnes

Alan Blyth, Elizabeth Forbes, Arthur Jacobs, Max Loppert, William Mann, Charles Osborne, Andrew Porter , Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack

Deidre Tilley

6 Woodland Rise, London N/0 3UH

Editor Deputy Editor Editorial Board

Personal Assistant to the Editor Editorial Offices

Working with Fritz Busch by Gerhard Schepelern

In the News People: 137

Agnes Baltsa by Noel Goodwin

Readers' Letters

Thea Musgrave's new success by Patrick J. Smith

Book Review

Obituary

Our Critics Abroad: Reports from America, Australia, Czechoslovakia, Eire, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,

Japan, Switzerland

COMING EVENTS-SUPPLEMENT

including plans for ENO, Covent Garden, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Saint Louis, Paris, Drottningholm; Festivals

1985 including Bayreuth, Florence, Macerata, Munich and

Verona; 'We hear that ... '

Record Reviews

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British Opera Diary, including reviews of 'Tristan and Isolde', 'Count Ory' and 'Fidelio ' at the Coliseum; Covent Garden's 'Capule ti e i Montecchi' and 'Barbiere di Siviglia';

Opera North's 'Traviata' and 'Tamburlaine'; WNO's 'Norma', 'Carmen' and 'Don Giovanni'; and Kent Opera's

'Barber of Seville' Fringe Performances School Performances

In Concert On Television

On Film

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Front cover: Suzanne Murphy as Norma in the Welsh

National Opera's new production of Bellini's opera