Autumn 1978
Festival Issue
Editor
HAROLD ROSENTHAL
Associate Editors Alan Blyth, Rodney Milnes Editorial Board Elizabeth Forbes, Arthur Jacobs, Max Loppert,
William Mann, Charles Osborne, Andrew Porter, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, John Warrack
Personal Assistant to the Editor Deidre Tilley Editorial Offices: 6 Woodland Rise, London NIO 3UH
Festivals Large and Small by the Editor
Blossom Time by Courtney Kenny
Glyndebourne’s Vintage Mozart by Harold Rosenthal
Edinburgh: Diamand’s Last Fling by Rodney Milnes
Salzburg’s Hit and Miss by Richard Law
Aix’s Glorious 30th Birthday by Harold Rosenthal
Orange: Tedious ‘Samson’ by Alan Blyth
Savonlinna: Talvela Triumphant by Rodney Milnes
Bayreuth: A Vivid ‘Hollander’ by Charles Pitt
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Munich: Success for Reimann’s ‘Lear’ by Horst Koegler 90 Holland: Friedrich’s ‘Giovanni’ by Max Loppert 95 Florence: ‘Vepres’ in Full by Susan Gould 98 Spoleto’s tragic ‘Cenerentola’ by Mariella Busnelli 100 Verona: Enlarged Season by Roger Bramble 105 Zurich: An Equivocal ‘Arabella’ by Gerold Fierz 110 Santa F e : An Ideal ‘Onegin’ by Jack Belsom 113 .... And reviews of other festivals at Adelaide, Albi, Avignon, Bordeaux, Carpentras, City of London, Carinthia, Harrogate, Innsbruck, Ottawa, Schwetzingen, Seattle, and Vienna. Other reviewers include Elizabeth Forbes, Lawrence Haskett, Kurt Honolka, Arthur Jacobs, Murray Leslie, Christopher Norton-Welsh, Charles Osborne, Anthony Rainer, F. B. St Clair, Elizabeth Silsbury, Barry Still, William Allin Storrer, Andre Tubeuf, and Conrad Wilson Front cover: Eric Tappy as Tamino and Christian Boesch as Papageno in ‘Die 7.auberflote’ at Salzburg