Abstract
GOODALL'S invitation to join the staff of the Covent Garden Opera – as assistant conductor to the musical director, Karl Rankl – had come in September 1946. His salary was to be ￡35 a week, double what he was getting at Sadler's Wells. His contract with the Sadler's Wells Opera still had eleven months to run, but the company agreed to release him “for anything as important as that, because … it may be a long time before you get the chance again.” Goodall moved to Covent Garden on 11 November, hopeful that at last he might be able to escape Verdi's clutches and concentrate instead on the German repertoire, and on the works of Wagner in particular. He was to be disappointed. During the first season there were no operas by Wagner and only one, Der Rosenkavalier, by Richard Strauss. Not unreasonably, Karl Rankl, an Austrian by birth though British by adoption, chose to conduct it himself.
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