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Dance

The Kirov Ballet (London Coliseum) Balanchine comes home Deirdre McMahon T he opening of Tchaikovsky's Theme and Variations, the final movement of his Third Suite, is formal and......

Opera

New Year (Glyndebourne) Sharing the light Rodney Milnes T here are many astonishing things ab- out Tippett's fifth opera, not least that at an age — 85, bless him! — when......