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The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden is home of two of the most famous opera and ballet companies on the planet. In this official background, Frances Donaldson discusses Covent Garden's many famous accomplishments - Der Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann, the unparalleled relationship of Fonteyn and Nureyev, the recent Otello with Domingo. She practices the frame of mind of the British to opera and their Opera House, and the crusade for opera to be sung in British. She looks at the internal politics with the often charismatic personalities who have proved helpful at the Opera House: Thomas Beecham, George Solti, Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton. Underlying the story, regardless of the many successful months, will be the ever-present problems of financial support and uncertainty into the future. The history is superbly well-documented from the Royal Opera House archives. Responses from journalists of that time period -whose critical reviews sometimes led to performers of international acclaim refusing to come back to Covent Garden - give spice to the fine examination of administrative and imaginative management at your garden.
