Last night Georg Solti, for ten years Covent Garden's volatile, engaging, brisk and business-like musical director, conducted a performance of "Tristan und Isolde". It was his last appearance as a full-time member of the Royal Opera House.
Tonight he talks to Bryan Magee about his years at the Garden, about his plans for the future, and conducts
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House leader Charles Taylor in excerpts from some of his favourite operas, with Stuart Burrows, John Dobson, Geraint Evans, Gwyneth Jones, Gwynne Howell, David Lennox, Donald McIntyre, Elizabeth Robson, John Shaw, Jess Thomas, Josephine Veasey, David Ward.
(Opera belongs to the people: page 11)
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