... COVENT GARDEN. PARSIFAL. It would serve no good purpose to compare too closely the very creditable and capable performance of Parsifal given by the British National Opera Company at Covent Garden on May 3 with the magnificent representations in German ...

... COVENT GARDEN. THE MAGIC FLUTE. Familiar in all respects was the cast of The Music Flute. which, as conducted with exemplary care, and appreciation of the Mozartear melodies, from the finely played Overture onwards, by Mr. Julius Harrison delighted ...

... COVENT GARDEN. The rentrile of Mdlle. Melba on Thursday, May 24, must certainly be ranked as a noteworthy event of the season. Hitherto, this lady under her own name of Mrs. Armstrong, had been heard by English amateurs upon the concert platform only ...

... COVENT GARDEN To the Editor of The Stage Sir, I have read the letter from Mr. Harold D. Rosenthal which appeared in a recent issue. In reply I would like to stale that many of the Covent Garden relics in my possession were the property of my own ancestors ...

... COVENT GARDEN From Sir Tom O'Brien To the Editor of THE STAGE Sir, You are to be heartily con gratulated on your excellent editorial on the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden, in your last Thursday's issue. A reprint of your editorial should bo widely ...

... COVENT GARDEN THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Pamela May. on Monday even ing followed the footsteps of Fonteyn, Grev. Shearer, and Elvin tav dancing the Princess Aurora on the bolrds of Covent Garden. She has the glittering attraction and the cool majesty of an ...

... COVENT GARDEN NEW OPERA SEASON The Covent Garden Opera Company will open their eighth season since the company's formation in 1947 with performances of two operas from The Ring; on October 19 they will give Die Walküre and on October 22 Siegfried ...

... Covent Garden Questions on planning and free lists THE NEED for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to be able to plan its programmes for some years ahead was stressed in Parliament when Jennie Lee, Minister for the Arts, told MPs who raised the matter ...

... COVENT GARDEN ICE BALLET On Tuesday, October 26, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, was used--for the first time in its history--for the presentation of ice ballet. The production Rhapsody on Ice, directed and staged by Claude Langdon, consists of ...

... AT COVENT GARDEN FORECAST OF BALLET AND OPERA PLANS Old Covent Garden looked remarkably new--as far as the inside was concerned--last Friday, when David Webster, as administrator of the Covent Garden Opera Trust, with Ninette de Valois. welcomed repr ...

... COVENT GARDEN COPPELIA On Saturday evening last tht Covent Garden Opera Trust pre sented the Sadler's Wells Ballet, under the direction of Ninette da Valois. in the ballet by Charlet Nuitter and Arthur Saint-Leon, with music by Leo Delibes, scenery ...

... COVENT GARDEN LA BOUTIQUE FANTASQUE Waiting for Danilova and Massine to be wheeled on to the Covent Garden stage on their little trolley to execute their famous Can-Can in La Boutique Fantasque, on Wednesday of last week, was like waiting on a station ...