18 FEBRUARY 1989, page 39

Pop Music

Call her madam Marcus Berkmann I t's good to have something to review at last — judging by the record companies' release schedules, January is a purely conceptual construction,......

Opera

Un re in ascolto (Covent Garden) Communication chords Rodney Milnes Y es, yes, but what's it about?' seems to have been a widespread reaction to the British premiere of Berio's......

Cinema

The Good Mother ('15', Odeon Haymarket) Bag and baggage Hilary Mantel L eonard Nimoy's film begins with an evocation of idyllic childhood summers at a lakeside house: sun hats......