4 MAY 2002, page 54

Architecture

Will Alsop (Soane Museum, till 7 June) Daring to be different Alan Powers I n a book of 1939, now probably all but forgotten, called Taste and Temperament, the mediaeval-art......

Opera

II Trovatore (Royal Opera House) Sweeney Todd (Leeds) Denying the truth Michael Tanner I 1 Trovatore is Verdi's nearest approach to a mythic opera. That does not by itself......