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Opera

Alceste au Musee By ADAM BELL Alceste. (Glyndebourne). Tristan. (Covent Garden). 'How glorious it is! How grand! We all wept like stags at bay,' wrote Berlioz after a rehearsal......

Theatre

The Play's the Thing By ALAN BRIEN ----■ .."\ of the Door. (Lyric, Hammer- smith.) Speaking of Murder. (St. Martin's.) Something's Burn- -- ing. (Arts.) No lover speaks upon......