March 1979

Vol 30 No 3

Founded by the Earl of Hare\\'ood

Editor

HAROLD ROSENTHAL

Associate Editors Alan Blyth, Rodney Milnes Editorial Board Elizabeth Forbes, Arthur Jacobs, Max Loppen,

William Mann, Charles Osborne, Andrew Porter, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack

Personal Assistant to the Editor Deidre Tilley Editorial Offices: 6 Woodland Rise, London NIO JUH

Great Recording of a Great Opera byLHarold Rosenthal 209 Jn the ews 212 People: JJ 8

Renato Bru on by Giorgio C11alerzi

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Opera on the Gramophone: 46 ·Eugene Onegin' Part 2 by Alan Blyth n Operatic (bus) conductor by Murray Leslie

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Our Critics Abroad: Reports from Finland, America, Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy 226 COM LNG EVENTS- S PPLEME T including plans for Covent Garden, English ational Opera, Bo ton, San Diego, Santa Fe, Catania, Glyndebourne, and Verona; ·we hear that . . .', Opera Calendar Gramophone Records Brief Chronicles Obituary London Opera Diary: including reviews of 'The Adventures of Mr Broucek· and ·The Marriage of Figaro' at the Coliseum, and ·Salome' and ·Don Pasquale' at Covent Garden ln Leeds In Scotland In Wales School Performance Book Review Reader's Letter Classified Advertisements

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Front cover: lleana Cotrubas as Torina and Geraint Evans as Don Pasquale at Covent Garden