OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF H.'.REv;ooD)

Yol 7 No 7

JULY 1956

Editor: HAROLD R0SE1'THAT. Assistant Editor: ANDREW PORTER Associate Editors: PHILIP HOPE-W.'\LLACE

\:\.l lLIAM MA1'!'." DESMO!'."D SHAWE-TAYLOR

Conte11ts Cover: Zi nka M ilanov as Tosca Comment An American Looks at Cownt Garden bv Robert A ck arr The Premiere of ·oie Zauberflote· by Professor Otto Erich D eursch (translated by Anne Ross) Summer Festivals:

Wiesbaden Florence Covent G a rden ewcomers Cecil Smith . 1906-1956

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