27 SEPTEMBER 1963, page 20

Der Freischiitz

By DAVID CAIRNS THE comparative ease with which Der Freischiitz has vindicated itself and estab- lished its right to exist on the modern operatic stage is a measure of the......

Less Than Kind .

`Chabrol, the trend-setter,' Penelope Houston calls him in her excellent new Pelican The Con- temporary Cinema, and so he is; trend-setter for, but embodier of, the whole French......