12 JUNE 1953, page 13

Contemporary Arts

MUSIC Gloriana. (Royal Opera House.)—A Garland for the Queen. (Royal Festival Hall.) AT Covent Garden, Britten's Gloriana has still, at the time of going to press, been held......

Theatre

FEW people can be enthusiastic over the Shrew as a play. However, like Much Ado, it has two famous acting parts and it gives scope to a ,producer. George Devine uses this scope......

Ballet

I SUpposE it was too much to hope that, besides Benjamin Britten's opera, Gloriana, we might also have had a full-length ballet from Frederick Ashton to celebrate the great......