Vol 2 0 No 5

Founded by the Earl of Harewood

Editor : HAROLD ROSENTHAL Associate Editors: ALA BLYTH and ARTHUR JACOBS Editorial Board : PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE, WILLIAM MANN, ANDREW PORTER, DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR, JOHN WARRACK

Edi1orial Offices: 6 Woodland Rise, London N. 10

CONTENTS

Edito r" s Comment : The Arts Council Cake Justifying the Subsidy by A lan Peacock T he Future of Scottish Opera: Pete r H emming~

ta lks to the Editor People: 79

Peter Glossop by F rank Granville Barker Joubert's 'Under Western Eyes· by E rn est Bradbury In the News page 374

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Week in New York by Lord Harewood and reviews of other overseas performancs COM I G EVENTS SUPPLEME T

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including plans fo r Sadler' Wells Theatre. Scottish Opera, San Francisco, Vienna ; Summer Festi vals;

'We hear that . . .'; Opera Calendar ; Home and Abroad 405-423 Record Reviews 424 Brief Chronicles from Austria. Germany (West and W. Berlin),

Italy. Sweden

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Obituary

442

Berlioz Memoirs- Strauss Biography: Book Reviews by Charles Reid and Alan Jefferson

A Case for 'Euryanth e· by John Warrack

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London Opera Diary including reviews of 'Benvenuto Cellini·

and 'Don Giovanni" at Covent Garden and 'Die Fledermaus· and 'Orfeo' at the Coliseum 447 Bennett's New Piece for Children by Arthur Jacobs 456 ·Macbeth· at Haddo House hy Colin Gibson 457 Student Performances 458 Readers' Letters 459

Classified adver1is('111 rn rs are 0 11 p . -1 64