Harold Rosenthal

Harold Rosenthal

Harold Rosenthal OBE (September 30, 1917 – March 19, 1987) was a British music critic, writer, lecturer, and broadcaster about opera.

He was educated at the City of London School and then went on to University College, London, where he gained his BA in 1940 before continuing his studies at the London Institute of Education.

He became acquainted with The Earl of Harewood after World War 2, and when Harewood founded the magazine "Opera" in 1950, Rosenthal became assistant editor. He assumed the editorship in 1953, a position which he held until his retirement in 1986.

Rosenthal served as archivist to the Royal Opera House from 1950 to 1956. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1983.

His principal books include "Sopranos of Today" (1956), "Two Centuries of Opera at Covent Garden" (1958), "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera," (with John Warrack) (1964), "The Mapleson Memoirs" (1966), and his 1982 autobiography, "My Mad World of Opera."

References


*Rosenthal, Harold: "My Mad World of Opera", Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1982. ISBN 0-297-78016-6 (hard cover)


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