OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF H AREWOOD)

Vol 9 No 5

MAY 1958

Editor: HAROLD ROSENTHAL

Assistant Editor: JOHN WAR RACK

Associate Editors: PIIILIP HOPE-WALLACE,

W ILLIAM MA 'N. A 'DREW PORTER, DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR

Contents

Cover: The Royal Italian Opera House.

Covent Garden. Mav 1858 Comment

The Covent Garden Centenary People: xxx iii Luchino Visconti by William Weaver

Opera on the Gramophone 5-'Don Carlos· by th e Earl of Hare wood

News

Gramophone Records Competition Results Opera Diary

Readers· Letters Opera Calendar page 278

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