29 MARCH 1963, page 20

Ballet

Vile Bodies By CLIVE BARNES It is seventeen years since Helpmann presented his last ballet, the appallingly pretentious Adam Zero, at Covent Garden. In those seventeen years he......

Opera

Pace Setting By DAVID CAIRNS THE Sadler's Wells Cosi fan torte has many qualities, but the most remarkable of them is the conducting of Colin Davis —the most complete......

Cinema

Stage Filming By ISABEL QUIGLY • THINK of turning Jules and Jim into opera or putting Romeo • and Juliet on ice: this is the kind of lunatic lack of connec- tion involved in......