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