Philip (1981), Words and Music (Selection of criticism written for The Guardian (Manchester and London), London: Collins. Lebrecht, Norman, Covent Garden: The Untold Story: Dispatches from the English Culture War, 1945–2000, Northeastern University Press, 2001. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Ltd (pub) (1957 to 1970), Annual Reports. Tooley, John, In House: Covent Garden, Fifty Years of Opera and Ballet, Faber and Faber, London, 1999. External links Joan Carlyle's web site 1931 births 2021 deaths English operatic sopranos Musicians from Merseyside People from the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral