24 OCTOBER 1992, page 52

Opera

Falstaff/The Voyage (Metropolitan Opera, New York) Verdi traduced Rupert Christiansen O pera houses were born to teeter per- manently on the brink of apocalypse, but the......

Music

Purcell's diligent muse Robin Holloway his month an important enterprise by T Hyperion, to record on eight CDs the first- ever collection of Purcell's Odes and Wel- come Songs,......