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Opera

Night of love JOHN HIGGINS Nicholas Maw's new opera for Glynde- bourne, The Rising of the Moon, is a Con- duct Unbecoming for the lyric stage. It is a popular piece, it is......

Cinema

Black humour PENELOPE HOUSTON Watermelon Man (Cameo-Poly, 'X') The Sicilian Clan (Carlton, 'A') Among comedy subjects not to be touched with a bargepole, I'd rate fairly high......

Arts Gentlemen And Players

ROBERT CUSHMAN The Two Gentleman of Verona (to say nothing of the dog) was the play chosen to inaugurate Peter Hall's regime at Stratford in 1960. It was by general consent a......