Letter from Moran Caplat to John Russell, The Sunday Times, 24 July 1954
- Reference code
- G/CC/8/1/8/2
- Level
- Item
- Title
- Letter from Moran Caplat to John Russell, The Sunday Times, 24 July 1954
- Date
- 24 July 1954
- Quantity & Format
- 01 letter, 02 sheets
- Repository
- Glyndebourne Archive
- Creator(s)
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Caplat, Moran
Busch, Fritz (Subject) - Scope and content
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Moran Caplat writes, “Our productions are usually at their best when they are of a work that it is new to us. The musical side is always at its best when we have in charge in the pit a specialist. Mature specialists are hard to find and very few of them specialise in more than quite a narrow field of opera. Busch was pretty catholic, but I do not think he would have tackled Rossini…”
He continues, “Mozart is our great problem. He is at once our mainstay and the most difficult thing we have to tackle. Who Busch’s successor in this field will be eventually I cannot say, I only wish I could.”
This letter and G/CC/8/1/8/1 provide insights into the direction of Glyndebourne following the death Fritz Busch
