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OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF HAREWOOD)

Vol 8 No 5

MAY 1957

Editor: HAROLD ROSENTHAL

Assistant Editor: JOH WARRACK

Associate Editors: PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE,

WILLIAM MANN, ANDREW PORTER, DESMO D SHAWE-TAYLOR

Contents Cover: Joan Sutherland as Alcina Photo A. Dawson Comment Creating a Ro le by Sylvia Fisher Opera in English by Andrew Porter A Gallery of Great S ingers by Desmond Shawe-Taylor 9: Mattia Battistini News Gramophone Record Book Reviews Opera Diary Radio Opera Readers' Letters Opera Calendar page 274

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