... Eugene Onegin GLASGOW THE INTERVAL tattle about this, the first Glasgow performance of Onegin was that it was better than it had been in Edinburgh during the summer. Certainly, the overall impression of this Eugene Onegin was good. The evening was. however, not without its longeurs. The first hour was very long indeed; each character was laboriously introduced a musical cameo and a little ...

... The Gondoliers SADLERS WELLS ANOTHER D'Oyly Carte season at Sadler's Wells opened with another performance of The Gondoliers. The remarkable thing is that the work's perennial repetitions only serve to emphasise its evergreen quality Sullivan's music is still melodiously alive. Gilbert's Ivrics still attracting with pungency and rhyming ingenuity, even if plot, cha racterisation and ...

... ENO THE ENGLISH National Opera revived A Night in Venice recently, but it is not one of their happiest offerings. The trouble with the work is twofold. First, the libretto is a feeble, unfunny concoction of threads of plots, getting nowhere: secondly the attempt to build an operetta with every number based on a dance rhythm leads to an inevitable monotonous surfeit, in spite of lively ...

... The Barber Of Seville RIVERSIDE BEAUMARCHAIS PLAY, upon which Rossini and others based operas, was not as overtly political as its successor in the trilogy but there was more than a touch of class-conscious satire in its story of wooing, winning and worsting. reier i\napp 5 auapiauon Keeps the Spanish locale but updates it to Franco's reign and the days when Britain retained an Empire. Our ...

... Angelo LITTLE ANGEL QUENTIN Blake's beautifully illustrated story for small children, about a troupe of travelling Italian show folk and how their penultimate son rescues a put-upon orphan from her cruel and miserly uncle, has been revived in John Wright's production with designs by Lyndie Wright for a Christmas season sponsored by the GLC. The puppets used are mainly rod ones, very well ...

... Miller's Master class JONATHAN MILLER will direct a public master class for Nexus Opera on scenes from Mozart's The Mar riage of Figaro on January 21 at 8.00pm in the studio of the Lyric Theatre. Hammersmith. Paula An- glin will feature as Countess Almaviva, with Sheila Brand as Susanna and Peter Savidge as Figaro. Alistair Dawes will conduct, with pianist Paul Griffiths. ...

... La Perichole RIVERSIDE THE REVIVAL in the short London season was that of Offenbach's La Perichole, which puts the story into -the context of one of Offenbach's own parties. You could call it the Knapp alie nation effect, though it comes over as a cosier, larkish affair than that suggests. All the same, there is translated into our own terms some thing of the satirical bite which lay behind ...

... Rananim CARDIFF THEATRICAL interest in that tortured, twisted literary genius D. H. Lawrence continues to grow, with the staging of and televising of his plays and stories, and the filming of his novels. The latest production by the Cardiff-based group Moving Being is another contribution to the ever-widening Lawrence cult. This 2'/4-hour show at the Sher man Arena Theatre, Cardiff was ...

... The Long Voyage Home at the Cottesloe PETER HEPPLE REVIEWS WERE Eugene O'Neill writing today, it couid well be for television, on the evidence of the four short plays which are being presented at the Cottesloe under the title of the last of them, The Long Voyage Home. Here is the instant, skilful characterisation the TV medium demands; here also is the fairly simple plot, strong on human ...

... Cinderella ROYAL BALLET AT THEIR official debuts in the Royal Ballet's Cinderella at the Royal Opera House Marguerite Porter and Mark Silver gave well shaped interpretations, but there was not enough individual colouring of their characterisations to mark their performances as spectacular. Porter s great beauty almost hampered her in the scenes where she has to look down-trodden and ...

... Ooh La La THE BUSH MIKE BRADWELL'S devised play, Ooh La La'!, with the Hull Truck Company at the Bush, is about dons and teachers and a couple of pupils. It is set in a North Country Uni versity town, and the talk is about revolution and democracy, pacifism and thought, novel writing and per sonal affairs. Songs are interpolated, also bits of piano playing, between the over-long series of ...

... Topsy Turvy PERTH PREMIERED at Perth Theatre, Charles Bell's musical play about Gilbert and Sullivan. Topsy Turvy, received a deservedly rapturous reception. Stage director Andrew McKinnon and musical director John Scrimger are backed by a company of eight actors and signers collaborating fully in the imagination and sparkle of the whole piece. The designer. Helen Wilkinson, takes a full ...