22 JULY 1960, page 19

Ballet

Monkey Business By CLIVE BARNES Norman Morrice's ballet fable The Wise Monkeys had its first London performance last Monday on the opening night of the current Ballet Rambert......

Opera

Let's Make a Drama By DAVID CAIRNS As an opera, we have hardly begun to take its Measure. How—despite confident assertions that 'in the last resort' Britten has 'somehow' failed......