OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF HAREWOOD)

Vol 7 No 6

JUNE 1956

Editor: HAROLD ROSENTHAL Assistant Editor: ANDREW PORTER Associate Editors: PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE

WILLIAM MANN, CECIL SMITH, DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR

Contents Cover: Krystyna Granowska and Charles Craig in 'Manon Lescaut' Photo Denis de Marney Comment The Heroine Puccini didn't Love by R obert Boas Mozart in America: 2 by James Hinton lr A Note on the First German Performances of Mozart's Italian Operas by Christopher Raeburn Four Glyndebourne Newcomers News Obituaries and Birthdays Summer Festivals Gramophone Records Opera Diary Readers' Letters Opera Calendar page 334

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