... COVENT GARDEN 'THE TWO PIGEONS' LESLEY COLLIER'S performance in The Two Pigeons at Covent Garden on June 26 showed how much this dancer has progressed as an artist during the last year or so. Technically, she seems never to put a foot wrong, and her ...

... Luciano Pavarotti THERE WAS NOT a seat to be had at Covent Garden on June 4 for Luciano Pavarotti's Sunday recital, evidence enough of this Italian tenor's enormous popularity. Accompanied by pianist John Wustman. he presented a mixture of strongly dramatic ...

... COVENT GARDEN 'DEATH IN VENICE' THE revival of Death in Venice at Covent Garden on June 27 reinforced previous impressions that Benjamin Britten has here produced a work of remarkable, sensitive, rarefied atmospheric effects, almost gripping throughout ...

... Royal Opera 'La Boheme' THE Spanish tenor Jose Carreras was the making of the Boheme revival at Covent Garden on June 12. His Rodolfo, small and slender, dominated by the silken lyricism of his voice, his constant, unexaggerated vitality, his living ...

... COVENT GARDEN 'DIE FRAU 0HNE SCHATTEN' A WARM WELCOME for Sir Georg Solti at Covent Garden on June 11 when he returned to conduct Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, and by the end of the evening the warmth had grown into tumultuous enthusiasm. This revival ...

... travel benefits dancers as much as it does the rest of us. and Stephen Jefferies, returning to the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden on June 15 after some seasons with the National Ballet of Canada, proved to have added style and polish to his inherent strength ...

... Ashton's La Fille mal gardee. and he worked hard at putting them over when he made his London debut in the role at Covent Garden on June 26 matinee. But not until the clog-dance did the character come to life as a believable creation. Up to that point, and ...

... II Trovatore ROYAL OPERA PIERO Faggioni's production of II Trovatore, first seen at Covent Garden last June with Placido Domingo in the role of Manrico, had a mixed reception on that first night which was repeated when it was revived almost a year later ...

... Covent Garden 'Faust' FAUST' still lives by Gounod's melodiousness and musicianship, whatever its shortcomings in the matter of tragic profundity. Thanks to these unfading qualities, and to good casting in all the parts, the revival at Covent Garden on June ...

... Swan Lake ROYAL BALLET I COUNTED nineteen flashbulb exposures during the first part of Swan Lake at Covent Garden on June 21. an indication that trigger-happy, souvenir-minded tourists are here in full force. Complaints from a number of people resulted ...

... demanding very much more than pure dance technique and this was proved again by Natalia Makarova's performance at Covent Garden on June 22. A guest with the Royal Ballet, she probably had insufficient time to study the role in depth, and although her actual ...

... Covent Garden 'Un Ballo in Maschera' LUCIANO PAVAROTTI, singing Gustavus in Un Ballo in Maschera for the first time at Covent Garden on June 21, cut a somewhat heavy, unreal figure, not helped by beard, ungainly clothes, and some absurd waving of arms ...