25 FEBRUARY 1978, page 26

Opera

Liberation Rodney Milnes The Bartered Bride (Scottish Opera) Smetana's masterpiece exploded onto the stage of the Theatre Royal in Glgasow with something of the force with which......

Cinema

Cerebral Clancy Sigal The Devil, Probably (X, Plaza, Camden Town) Last week I attacked the young German, Fassbinder, for reducing his film Effi Briest to a boring exercise in......

Television

A pittance Richard Ingrams I said before that the mi s file Barrie Gavin at the end of a programme can normally be regarded as an indication of preceding bore" dom and......