15 AUGUST 1981, page 24

Arts

Old romance Peter Ackroyd Drole de Drame (Academy, Oxford Street) A week which offers only a rehash of The Lone Ranger is not good news; so what could be better than to retreat......

Opera

Bannable? Rodney Milnes Le nozze di Figaro (Glyndebourne) A Senior and Much-respected Older Colleague (hereinafter smoc) threw a frightful wobbly in the interval of Fidelio last......