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Opera Leonore (albert Hall)

Room for improvement Michael Tanner ‘..../f the four great religious operas, Die ZauberflOte, Fidelio, Tristan und lsolde, Moses und Aron, only one is perfect and it isn't......

Music

Misplaced sniffiness Robin Holloway T his year's Proms are plentiful in new or recent specimens of the classic genres; as well as three full-scale symphonies, there are no fewer......