City And Suburban
How to invest in hiring more people and losing more money — send in the clowns CHRISTOPHER FILDES I wonder how Rupert Murdoch would get along in the opera business. The great......
In The Black
THE NEW Sadler's Wells opens in Octo- ber with the Ballet Rambert, and I hope this will keep Giannandrea Poesio happy. (Later on, Covent Garden's homeless opera company will......
Sadler's Who?
ALTERNATIVELY, Mr Murdoch could send for Sir Richard Eyre. That is what Chris Smith did at the Ministry of Culture. Sir Richard does not quite tell us why Covent Garden will get......
La Dogana Straniera
THERE is an opera waiting to be written, called The Quaint Old Spanish Custom. In Fleet Street as it was, the print unions used such irrational customs to rule and rob the......
No Guarantee
MY MAN in the crush bar says that Covent Garden's troubles started when Lord Drogheda, its panjandrum, promised Harold Macmillan that everything would be all right. Whitehall......
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