(DIPUIBilFounded b y th e E a r l o f H a r e w o o d
ANNUAL FESTIVAL ISSUE AUTUMN 1966
Editor: HAROLD ROSENTHAL
Deputy E d i to r : Ar t h u r Jacobs Overseas News E d i to r : ALAN b l y t h
Editorial B o a rd : p h i l i p h o p e -W a l l a c e , w i l l i a m m a n n , ANDREW PO RTER , D E SM O N D SH AW E -T A Y LO R , JOHN WARRACK
CONTENTS Zoppot: The Bayreuth of the North by E inhard Luther
Impressions and Memories of Singers and Conductors who appeared a t Z o p p o t :
Robert Heger, Erich Kleiber, Karl Tutein, Margarete Arndt-Ober, Lily Hafgren-Dinkela, Eriedrich Plaschke, Heinrich Knote, Desider Zador
List of Operas (with casts) perform ed at the Waldoper, Zoppot, 1909-1942
FESTIVAL REVIEWS Glyndebourne FROM page 24 Aix-en-Provence
Aldeburgh
Cheltenham
Edinburgh
Bath
Vienna
Salzburg
Graz
Bregenz
Prague
Copenhagen
33 Munich
38 Bayreuth
41 Schwetzingen
45 Wiesbaden
47 Holland
50 Florence
63 Spoleto
64 Verona
65 Lausanne
68
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page 70
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REVIEWERS Roger Bramble, Pavel Eckstein, Elizabeth Forbes, K u rt Honolka, Peter M. K a tona, Oleg Kerensky, Svend A. K. Roewade, Stanley Sadie, Marcel Senechaud, Andre Tubeuf, William Weaver, Joseph Wechsberg, John S. Weissmann, Christopher Norton Welsh, Conrad Wilson and
Harold Rosenthal, A rthur Jacobs, Alan Blyth. Andrew Porter Front Cover: the last act o f ‘Tosca’ at the Verona Arena this summer