Covent Garden Opera Trust presents the Covent Garden Opera in...
Opera in three acts by Wagner
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson)
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Matthews)
Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt.
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Time: The middle of the 16th century
Act 1
Interior of St. Katherine's Church

Talk by Walter Gellhorn
Professor of Law at Columbia University, New York and Simon Visiting Professor at Manchester University

Act 2
A street with the houses of Pogner and Sachs

by Francis Watson
Twenty-six letters from Rabindranath Tagore to Sir William Rothenstein have been published in the Journal of the Royal Society for India. Pakistan, and Ceylon at the same time as the Rothenstein Collection of Indian paintings has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum's Indian Section. This talk considers the effects of Tagore's fricnd,hip with Rothenstein on the development of Indian nationhood and on the relations between India and Britain.

Sachs' workshop

An open meadow by the River Pegnitz

by Ezra Pound
Read by Frederick Allen

Sonata in E miinor, No. 34 Sonata in B minor, No. 32 played by Nina Milkina. (piano)
The sonatas are numbered according to the Breitkopf collected edition of Haydn's works.