Autumn 1971
Festival Issue
Editor
HAROLD ROSENTHAL
Associate Editor Alan Blyth Editorial Board Arthur Jacobs, William Mann, Charles Osborne,
AndrewPorter, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack Editorial Offices: 6 Woodland Rise, London N10 3 U H
Contents Festival Summers by Harold Rosenthal
Festival Opera Reconsidered by William Mann
Glyndebourne: Adventurous Enough? by Alan Blyth (with additional reviews by Harold Rosenthal, Arthur Jacobs and Charles Osborne)
Edinburgh: Scottish Wagner-German Mozart by Harold Rosenthal
Brighton: Phoenix . . . and Nightingale by Elizabeth Forbes and Anthony Hicks
Salzburg Strikes New Ground by John Higgins
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Bregenz: Happy ‘Daughter’ by Christopher Norton Welsh 44 Helsinki: Assorted Guests by Silvester Mazzarella 46 Disappointments at Aix by Tony Mayer 4 7 Divonne-les-Bains: Off the Beaten Track by Ossia Trilling 51 Munich: Rare Strauss and Mozart by James Helme Sutcliffe 53 Bayreuth: Heat, Cheers and Boos by Harold Rosenthal 63 Handel Festivals at Halle and Gottingen by James Helme Sutcliffe 73 Athens: Open-air ‘Orpheus’ by Oleg Kerensky 'll Holland: Total Theatre by Lord Harewoocl 7 9 Florence: East Meets West by William Weaver 83 Spoleto: ‘Boris’ in Italian by William Weaver 86 Verona: First ‘Macbeth’ by Charles Osborne 87 Macerata: Rival for Verona? by Giorgio Gualerzi 9 3 Lausanne: Belgrade Visit by Theodore Bloomfield 9 5 Santa F e : Posthumous Villa-Lobos by John Ardoin 98 Caramoor: Besetting Sins by Patrick J. Smith 104 Front cover: Rehearsing ‘Ariadne’ at Glyndebourne
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