Festivals Abroad

Herewith is information for musically-minded persons planning vacations abroad. Some places and dates worth considering:

England.

London. Opera at Covent Garden from April 27 to July 3. The repertoire is chiefly Wagner-Verdi-Puccini.

Also in London, for six weeks beginning in May at the Lyceum Theatre, a Russian Opera Company, starring Basso Feodor Chaliapin, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, whose famed pills were once advertised by a parody of "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing."

London and Oxford. International Society for Contemporary Music, July 22-28. Compositions by George Gershwin and Roger Sessions will represent the U. S.

Gloucester. Three Choirs Festival, Sept. 6-11, in which the choirs of Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford compete. British Composers Gustav Hoist, Sir Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan-Williams will conduct their works.

Switzerland.

Basle. A Mozart Festival, May 9-17, under Conductor Felix Weingartner.

Germany.

Festivals of varying importance are held in almost every German city and town sometime during the spring or summer. Outstanding ones this year:

Freiburg. A Bruckner Festival in the middle of May.

Munich. A Wragner Festival at the Prince Regent Theatre. July 18-Aug. 19, followed by two performances each of Strauss's Rosenkavalier and Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina.

A Mozart Festival at the Residence Theatre, July 19-Aug. 18.

Bayreuth. Wagner Festival, July 21-Aug. 19. Tannhauser will be given July 21, Aug. i, Aug. 5, Aug. 8, Aug. 17 under Arturo Toscanini. Parsifal, also under Toscanini, will be given July 22, Aug. 2, Aug. 6, Aug. 9, Aug. 19. Tristan und Isolde will be conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler July 23, Aug. 3, Aug. 18. The Ring under Karl Elmendorff will be given twice--July 25, 26, 28, 30 and Aug. 11, 12, 13, 1515.

Austria.

Vienna. The Staatsoper stays open this year until the second week in July but the special Festival weeks for music and drama are June 7-21.

Salzburg. Special music and drama, July 25-Aug. 30. Diversified programs will be directed by such famed men as Max Reinhardt, Arturo Toscanini, Ernst von Dohnanyi, Clemens Krauss, Franz Schalk, Bruno Walter.

Most of the Spanish Festivals were scheduled for April this year, too early for most summer tourists. In Paris the performances of Russian opera will be most interesting.

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