6 DECEMBER 1997, page 58

The Wilder Shores Of Tedium

Martin Gayford has a problem: he doesn't care who won the Turner Prize N obody could like all forms of art, Oscar Wilde once observed, except an auc- tioneer. It is an apercu......

Cool Off And Buckle Down

Rupert Christiansen on how `opera's golden couple' are attracting a wave of hostility L ast October, the tenor Roberto Alagna and his wife soprano, Angela Ghe- orghiu, were the......