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Hovv much Opera vvill you find betvveen Muvvashshah • and Ory? Over one hundred pages - in volume thirteen of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. One hundred pages that cover every aspect of opera from its origins in Italy to twentieth-century stage design, written by the world's sixteen leading authorities. 'The greatest musical dictionary ever published ... ' (Charles Rosen, Th e New York Review of Books) The article on Opera is only one of the 22,500 articles contained within the twenty volumes of The ew Grove. There are short dictionary type entries through to book length discussions on every aspect of music - in the words of one reviewer ' ... from ancient Greek aulos ·to Yamaha pianos, from Byzantine chant to The Who, from Adorno to Schiekele, from aboriginal song to virtuoso pianism .. . ' (D. W. Krummel, Choice) Details of the several special methods by which music-lovers can buy The New Grove For the many music-lovers who want to acquire The New Grove for their own personal use and pleasure we offer the following: A special discount for cash with order or an instalment scheme designed especially for individual purchasers The dictionary delivered free of shipping and handling charges anywhere in the world A free, fully illustrated brochure describing The ew Grove in detail, sent to you free of obligation when you write to the publishers at the address below: Kate Jur y, The ew Grove, Fromson Building, Canada Road, Byfleet, KT14 7JL Telephone: Byfleet 41454
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January 1982 Vol 33 No 1 Founded by the Earl of Harewood Editor Associate Editors Editorial Board Personal Assistant to the Editor Editorial Offices HAROLD ROSENTHAL Alan Blyth, Rodney Milnes Elizabeth Forbes, Arthur Jacobs, Max Loppert, William Mann , Charles Osborne, Andrew Porter Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack Deidre Ti lley 6 Woodland Rise, London N /0 JUH In the News Cavalli and' L'Egisto' by Jane Glover The Art of Chaliapin by Victor Borovsky 16 19 27 Readers' Letters 34 Wexford 1981 by Elizabeth Forbes 36 New regimes in Berlin - East and West by Ernst Krause and James He/me Sutcliffe 41 Obituary 45 Our Critics Abroad: Reports from Belgium, America, France, Germany (West) and Yugoslavia 46 COMING EVE TS - SUPPLEME T including plans for ENO, Covent Garden, WNO in London, East Berlin , Milan; Festivals 1982 and 1983; 'We hear that ... '; Opera Calendar British Opera Diary, including reviews of 'Alceste', 'La sonnambula' and 'Tosca' at Covent Garden; Weill and Poulenc at the Coliseum; 'La forza de! destino' in Cardiff; 'Partenope' at Sadler' s Wells Student Performance Book Review Record Reviews Classified Advertisements 49-64 85 101 103 105 111 Front cover: Janet Baker as Alceste in the Royal Opera's new production of Gluck's opera

Hovv much Opera vvill you find betvveen Muvvashshah • and Ory?

Over one hundred pages - in volume thirteen of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. One hundred pages that cover every aspect of opera from its origins in Italy to twentieth-century stage design, written by the world's sixteen leading authorities.

'The greatest musical dictionary ever published ... ' (Charles Rosen, Th e New York Review of Books)

The article on Opera is only one of the 22,500 articles contained within the twenty volumes of The ew Grove. There are short dictionary type entries through to book length discussions on every aspect of music - in the words of one reviewer ' ... from ancient Greek aulos ·to Yamaha pianos, from Byzantine chant to The Who, from Adorno to Schiekele, from aboriginal song to virtuoso pianism .. . ' (D. W. Krummel, Choice)

Details of the several special methods by which music-lovers can buy The New Grove

For the many music-lovers who want to acquire The New Grove for their own personal use and pleasure we offer the following: A special discount for cash with order or an instalment scheme designed especially for individual purchasers The dictionary delivered free of shipping and handling charges anywhere in the world A free, fully illustrated brochure describing The ew Grove in detail, sent to you free of obligation when you write to the publishers at the address below: Kate Jur y, The ew Grove, Fromson Building, Canada Road, Byfleet, KT14 7JL Telephone: Byfleet 41454

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