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Salzburg

A NEW opera is included each year at the Salzburg Festival, but since Richard Strauss's The Love of Dance was presented in 1952, the new works, The Trial by von Einam and......

Festivals Abroad

BAYREU'TH RIENZI,. Wagner's first full-scale opera, is never given at Bayreuth since he considered it too powerful an indictment of monarchy as represented by his patron King......

Television

WHEN I first met The Grove Family about six months ago it performed for a quarter of an hour each Friday. In my televisionary inno- cence I thought it must have been slipped in......

Cinema

BLACKBOARD JUNGLE. (Empire.)--THE. KEN- TUCKIAN. (Odeon, Leicester Square.)— WAGONMASTER. (National Film Theatre.) THE young idealist embarking on a teaching career at a New......