OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF HAREWOOD)

Vol 9 No 7

JULY 1958

Editor: HAROLD ROSENTHAL Assistant Editor: JOHN WARRACK Associate Editors: PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE,

WILLIAM MANN, ANDREW PORTER, DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR

Contents

Cover: James Pease as Sachs and Geraint Evans as Beckmesser at Covent Garden Ph o to Houston Rogers Comment page 414 Festival of American Opera by Raymond Ericson 415

The Teatro Colon , Buenos Aires, 1908-1958

by Ed,uardo Arnosi Summer Festivals: 1

Glyndebourne New Operas at Sadler·s Well s by A !an Boustead Covent Garden Guest Singers in July News Book Reviews Gramophone Records Opera Diary Opera Calendar

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