Aaron Rabushka wrote:

>I need some help from some of our Hungarian correspondents on the correct
>title for Bartok's opera. I had thought that it was "A Keckszakallu Herceg
>Vara," yet when I mentioned this to some people from Budapest they said
>"That's not Hungarian." The Hungaroton record from which I got it

I have a video of the opera (Fishcer and the London Phil) and I have
checked in the Penguin dictionary of music; they both give the title
exactly as you have typed it!  Penguin even labels it Hungarian.  Have
they had a serious spelling reform since 1919? I don't know a word or
Hungarian but I will be interested in the answer as well.

Cheers

Gerald Kelly