17 AUGUST 1974, page 25

Opera

Mixed blessings Rodney Elms The English National Opera's first week of activity has certainly not been trouble-free: unofficial indus trial action in the wardrobe depart ment......

Ballet

Black art Robin Young The Dance Theatre of Harlem is an astonishing company, not only — or even primarily — because it is black, but because it is so young and so good. It was......

Fringe Theatre

Sour Kraut Gill Pyrah Stallerhof, the first of Franz Xaver Kroetz's plays to be translated from the German, is a work of conscious pessimism which receives the unsentimental......

Will Waspe

Press accounts of the collapse of baritone Thomas Allen in mid. number at last week's Prom performance of Carl Orrm's Carmina Burana were variously inaccurate: the heat of the......