21 DECEMBER 1991, page 86

Music 2

Safe haven for genius Robin Holloway W hen I woke up I heard a sound, it grew ever louder, I could no longer imag- ine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music!'......

Opera

All I want for Christmas Rupert Christiansen A s operatic recording of 1991, the col- lective wisdom of the Gramophone's reviewers selected John Eliot Gardiner's Idomeneo......

Dance

Royal Ballet (Covent Garden) English National Ballet (Royal Festival Hall) Russian refinement Deirdre McMahon C olas in La Fille mal gardee is the first Ashton role which Irek......