19 JANUARY 1991, page 35

Opera

Capriccio (Covent Garden) Very stylish Rupert Christiansen T his will be a year of recession for opera as much as for anything else — a year in which a much-advertised boom......

Exhibitions

Derain: the Late Work (Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, till 17 March) Oddly revered Giles Auty I have seen a great deal of painting which does not appeal to me at all. Its......