4 DECEMBER 1971, page 22

Cinema

Problems of rape and royalty Tony Palmer I have to report that the cinema took a Slight turn for the worse this week with the opening of two long-awaited and eagerly expected......

Opera

Blood sports Hugh Macpherson Monteverdi's opera The Coronation of Poppea tells a sordid tale. Nero rejects his good and faithful wife Ottavio and when the noble Seneca objects......