20 JANUARY 1990, page 36

Opera

Otello (Covent Garden) Faust (Coliseum) Lightning conductors Rodney Milnes T he fear that lightning would never strike twice — or thrice, since this was the third Carlos......

Cinema

Haunted by the past Hilary Mantel T he swimming pool is palm-fringed and a dazzling blue; on a sunshine-coloured air-bed there bobs a film star, biceps glistening, eyes......