4 APRIL 1998, page 46

Opera

Cosi fan tutte (Royal Opera, Shaftesbury Theatre) Fidelio (English Touring Opera, Peacock Theatre) Paradoxical paradise Michael Tanner W ith Opera North's treatment of Cosi fan......

Dance

The Tchaikovsky Trilogy (Peter Schaufuss Ballet, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh) Dream on Giannandrea Poesio T he complex symbolism that permeates Tchaikovsky's ballets — Swan......

Pop Music

It isn't fair Marcus Berkmann 6 Cover me,' sang Bruce Springsteen somewhere around 1984, 'Ooh baby, cover me.' If this was a plea to other pop per- formers to record dismal......