OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF HAREWOOD)

Vol 9 No 3

MARCH 1958

Editor: HAROLD ROSE THAL

Assistant Editor : JOHN WARRACK

Associate Editors: PH ILIP HOPE-WALLACE,

WILLIAM MA1 1 , A DREW PORTER, DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR

Contents Cover: Elsie Mori on and Jeannette Sinclair in 'The CarmeJites· Ph o tograph Houston R ogers Comment Rossi ni·s ·William Tell' by A ndrew Porter Viscount Waverley-An Appreciation by David W ebster La Scala School of Perfection by Claudio Sartori Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858-1 919) Part 1 by John W . Klein Drury Lane Artists ews Gramophone Record Opera Diary Readers· Letters Opera Calendar page ] 45

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