21 NOVEMBER 1987, page 39

Opera As Its Own Phantom

Rupert Christiansen A SONG OF LOVE AND DEATH by Peter Conrad Chatto & Windus, £25 OPERA: A HISTORY by Christopher Headington, Roy Westbrook, and Terry Barfoot Bodley Head, £16......

Difficult, But With A Touch Of Genius

Mary Keen A WOMAN OF PASSION by Julia Briggs Hutchinson, £16.95 J ulia Briggs is an English don at Oxford. It is doubtful whether she wrote the blurb which accompanies her......