30 JUNE 2001, page 48

Mysterious, Transcendent Beauty

Martin Gayford is enraptured by the Vermeers on display at the National Gallery I n May 1921, all Paris was flocking to an exhibition of Vermeers at the Jeu de Paurne. On the......

Dance

Sleeping Beauty; Jewels; Manon (Royal Opera House) Breathtaking plunges Giannandrea Poem L ong live the Kirov Ballet. The first half of the 2001 summer season has proved that......

Opera

The Rape of Lucretia (Coliseum) Innocence and corruption Michael Tanner I wish that Britten's most ardent admirers would take him more seriously, in the way that the earliest......