6 JANUARY 2001, page 32

Vintage Start To The Year

Martin Gaylord believes that 2001 will be a good year for exhibitions T he year 2000 was an odd one in at least one way — apart, that is, from numerologically, millenarianally,......

La Cenerentola (royal Opera House)

The good, the bad and the ugly Michael Tanner O f all Rossini's comic operas, La Cenerentola is the one with the most plausible claims to genuine feeling, even to depth. How far......

Shocking Death

Marcus Berkmann P op stars tend to die earlier and more pointless deaths than most people, but the end of Kirsty MacColl still came as a shock. For one thing she was never quite......