20 JUNE 1970, page 22

Opera

Byzantine beasts JOHN HIGGINS `This is too gentle, we want wild beasts here ... the music must crash.' The comment was Strauss's own, made during the rehearsals for a Prague......

Art

Unchaste & fair BRYAN ROBERTSON If Gainsborough sets up fresh tensions between figures and an enveloping or subsidiary landscape, Degas, now shown splendidly in a loan......

Theatre

Ercles' vein HILARY SPURLING King John (Stratford-upon-Avon) Buzz Goodbody's production of King John at Stratford is a comparatively simple affair but, considering the solemn......