18 NOVEMBER 1980, page 26

Opera

Small beer Rodney Milnes L'Africalne (Covent Garden) The Thieving Magpie (Coliseum) People who know about these things maintain that L'Africaine is Meyerbeer's masterpiece, in......

Cinema

Preview Ted Whitehead London Film Festival (NFT) The Hound of the Baskervilles (General release) I've faced the Magic of Attenborough and the Omen II of Taylor, but a kind fate......

Art

Mrs Picasso John McEwen Everyone knows that twentieth-century art begins with Cubism, so it is quite something when, as at present, London simultaneously has exhibitions of the......