Autumn 1981
Festival Issue
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HAROLD ROSENTHAL Alan Blyth, Rodney Milnes Elizabeth Forbes, Arthur Jacobs, Max Loppert, William Mann, Charles Osborne, Andrew Porter, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack Deidre Tilley 6 Woodland Rise, London N10 3UH
A Festival Tour by Charles Osborne
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A Memorable Glyndebourne Year by Harold Rosenthal 20 Edinburgh: A happy return by Rodney Milnes 33 Buxton: Consolidation by Rodney Milnes 44 Salzburg: Karajan’s ‘FalstafF; Cerha’s ‘Baal’ by Bryan Magee 47 Variety of fare at Vienna by Christopher Norton-Welsh 54 Bregenz’s vivid ‘Otello’ by Horst Koegler 59 A ix : Mixed blessings by Rodney Milnes 67 Bayreuth: Between ‘Rings’ by Harold Rosenthal 77 Munich revives Strauss’s ‘Helen’ by Alan Blyth 88 Florence: Short measure? by Susan Gould 102 Spoleto: From Gluck to Lehar by Luigi Bellingardi 106 Verona: Voices in the Arena by Sergio Castagnino 108 Friedrich’s ‘Wozzeck’ at Zurich by Gerold Fierz 115 Sante Fe produces ‘Daphne’ by Jack Belsom 117 Mozart and Britten done proud at Ottawa by Svend K. Roewade
. . . And reviews of festivals at Aldeburgh (41), Bordeaux (73), Brighton (42), Carpentras (75), Charleston USA (120), Corfu (99), Drottningholm (114), Holland (100), Innsbruck (61), Madrid (112), Nimes (75), Orange (71), Prague (62), Savonlinna (64), Schwetzingen (94), Turku (65), and Wiesbaden (95). Other reviewers include Robert Boas, Elizabeth Forbes, John W. Freeman, Ian Horsbrugh, Carl H. Hiller, Arthur Jacobs, Joel Kasow, Beate Kayser, Murray Leslie, Max Loppert, V. MolinaFoix, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, William Allin Storrer, Ossia Trilling and Joseph Wechsberg
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Front cover: A scene from 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Glyndebourne