26 JULY 1957, page 15

Contemporary Arts

The Cheltenham Festival THE Cheltenham Festival remains year in year out unchangingly focused on the four concerts of the Halle Orchestra. This is almost inevitable. The general......

Rossini's Le Comte Ory Is A Delightful Opera Containing An

absurd story, a good deal of zany humour and some music as subtle and enchant- ing as Mozart at his best. Carl Ebert's Glynde- bourne production is now resuscitated with nearly......

Views On News

IN spite of its lonely isolation at the Alexandra Palace, a geographi- cal exile which is apparently v matched by a curious species of I administrative apartheid (why, for......