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Stewart Grainger, and the others were equally good. George Devine's

production is properly sparing and austere, Malcolm Pride's costumes are imaginative and bril- liant,• and although the second of Hugh Cason's sets (the interior of Pandarus's house) looks rather like one of Heal's windows, and the third (the Greek camp) is unnecessarily drab, the first, which is most important (the temple of Pallas), is mag- nificently impressive. It all went far to make the biggest popular success for a new opera that Covent Garden has known for many years.

• COLIN MASON