by SIR JACK WESTRUP
Sir Jack Westrup , Heather Pro fessor of Music in the University of Oxford, edited L'incoronazione di Popped and directed performances of other Monteverdi operas before the war. He examines Monteverdi's relationship to the operatic experiments of Péri and Caccini and discusses some of the problems in preparing Monteverdi's operas for modern performance.