30 JANUARY 1982, page 24

Arts

Influences Gavin Stamp have always admired the Finns from I afar: they have bravely beaten back the Soviet army on several occasions; they are, I am told, permanently drunk; and......

Opera

Cleanish fun Rodney Milnes L'Egisto (Scottish Opera) V enetian opera, of which Cavallis V L'Egisto is a comparatively early ana l ; pie (it was premiered in 1643, just six yea......