27 MAY 1966, page 16

Ballet

Song of Farewell rrHE facts are quite simple: on May 19 the I Royal Ballet gave the first London per- formance of Kenneth MacMillan's latest ballet, Song of the Earth; it is set......

Opera

Corelli Rides Again O F the most recent Turandot revival (Covent Garden) and of Bluebeard, the latest Offen- bach at Sadler's Wells. it is fair, I think, to say that the first......

Art

Scarfe on Beardsley F IRST I would like to say that I think Aubrey Beardsley, whose magnificent exhibition opened at the Victoria and Albert last week, to have been a......