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The Golden Decade Solti at Covent Garden

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At my very first press conference I said very imperiously and very impatiently that I would like to make this house the best Opera House in the world and I think this is achieved ...
Last Saturday Georg Solti concluded his ten years as musical director of the Royal Opera.
Bernard Levin looks back on the operatic highlights of these ten years, with contributions from GEORG SOLTI and from some of the people who have worked with him at Covent Garden, including:
GERAINT EVANS. PETER HALL
GWYNETH JONES. JAMES MCCRACKEN BIRGIT NILSSON and JOSEPHINE VEASEY
The programme also includes extracts from some of the operas Solti has conducted at Covent Garden, including Der Rosenkavalier, Otello, Tristan und Isolde and Fidelio.
Compiled by PEGGY BRANFORD - Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
(' Opera belongs to the people': page 11)

Contributors

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Georg Solti
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Bernard Levin
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Georg Solti
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Geraint Evans.
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McCracken Birgit Nilsson
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Josephine Veasey
Produced By:
Alan Haydock
Source: Radio Times

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