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Opera As Opera

Rodney Milnes In Defence of Opera Hamish Swanston (Allen Lane E6.50; Penguin £1.25) Literature as Opera Gary Schmidgall (OUP £6.95) Romantic Opera and Literary Form Peter Conrad......

Arts

Simple faith Ted Whitehead A Day Forever (Open Space) Perhaps Michael Sharp shouldn't complain about the less-than-serious critical response to his play, A Day Forever, because......

Cinema

Honourable Clancy Sigal The Duellists (Plaza 3: Classic Oxf° rd Street) There is a particularly chilling sound effec t in The Duellists (A). It is the jagged scrape of a......