18 DECEMBER 1999, page 84

From Bad To Worse

Rupert Christiansen on some terrible experiences in the opera house F or some aficionados, the annual autumn pilgrimage to Wexford's Opera Festival is a trip to Cytherea,......

Arts

Meeting the Madonna and Child Martin Gayford meditates on the emotional impact of Caravaggio's painting I n a shadowy doorway, a woman holds a naked child. Though it is rather a......