24 DECEMBER 1988, page 84

Opera Rigaletto (covent Garden)

Comfortable tidings Rodney MiInes N ot even the most benign hack could describe any of this season's new produc- tions as an unqualified success, and the ill-tempered,......

Music

Eminent octogenarians Robin Holloway h e two most eminent living composers celebrated their 80th birthdays on consecu- tive days earlier this month. Olivier Mes- siaen is more......