9 FEBRUARY 2002, page 55

Take Them Or Leave Them

Selina Mills J udging from the queues of excited crowds straggling round the dreary, drizzleswept Trafalgar Square last week, it would appear that the National Portrait Gallery......

Violent Voices

Michael Tanner S everal great composers have been drawn throughout their lives to writing an opera on King Lear. Fortunately the two who were most celebratedly tempted by the......