19 OCTOBER 1996, page 62

Opera

Siegfried; Gotterdammerung (Covent Garden) It's got to go Michael Tanner A ter the lows of Die Walkiire, with some weak casting and a ubiquitously try- ing production, Siegfried......

Grand Old Man Of Taste

Isabel Carlisle talks to Sir Brinsley Ford, the doyen of Grand Tour studies T o say that Sir Brinsley Ford is a relic of the Grand Tour could be construed as impertinent. Relics......