15 MARCH 2008, page 64

Face Value

Andrew Lambirth Pompeo Batoni 1708–1787 National Gallery, until 18 May T he first impression offered by the Batoni exhibition in the Sainsbury Wing is one of dullness. I tend to......

Shrewd Survivor

Michael Tanner Falstaff WNO Paradise Moscow Royal Academy of Music V erdi’s last opera Falstaff is also for many people his greatest. I went to see it in Cardiff this week,......