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
Classified Advertisements
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Front cover: Suzanne Murphy as Norma in the Welsh
National Opera's new production of Bellini's opera