... COVENT GARDEN To the Editor of THE STAGE Sir,--During the historic season of English Opera at Covent Garden run by the singers Louisa Pyne and William Harrison, Queen Victoria attended the opera Lurline, by Fitzball and Vincent Wallace, and inquired ...

... COVENT GARDEN On March 14 the Covcnt Garden Opera Trust presented the Sadler's Wells Ballet in a programme consisting of Les Sylphides. Scenes de Ballet. and Mam'zelle Angot. Moira Shearer was the only top- line ballerina in the bill at Covent ...

... COVENT GARDEN DE CUEVAS BALLET On Tuesday last the Covent Garden Opera Trust presented the Marquis de Cuevas* Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo in a pro gramme consisting of: Sebastian, Noir et Blanc, Black Swan. and Constantia.'' The Marquis de Cuevas is ...

... COVENT GARDEN SADLER'S WELLS BALLET At the Royal Opera on Monday last the Covent Garden Opera Trust presented the Sadler's Wells Ballet, under the direction of Ninette de Valois. in The Rake's Progress, Nocturne, Miracle in the Gorbals At Covent Garden ...

... COVENT GARDEN. TRISTAN AND ISOLDE, Tristan was given for the first and only time this season on Monday, when also Mr. Frank Mullings made a fleeting re-appearance with the B.N.O.C. as the Cornish Knight, and Mme. Florence Austral essayed for the first ...

... COVENT GARDEN MOIRA SHEARER'S SUCCESS IN GISELLE The ambition of every ballerina is said to be to dance as Giselle. To the long list of ballerinas who have essayed this difficult task, from Carlotta Grisi to Alicia Markova and Margot Fonteyn, we must ...

... The Covent Garden season of uussian Baiiet ended on Satur day. It was generally known that during last week M. Sevas- tianov, one of the directors of the present Covent Garden ballet company, had announced his resignation, that Irina Baronova (prima ...

... AT COVENT GARDEN Tanaquil le Clereq and Francisco Moncion in Symphony in C ...

... COVENT GARDEN SIR THOMAS BEECHAM'S ATTACK Strong criticism of the Covent Garden Onera Trust was made by Sir Thomas Beecham at the annual conference of the Incorporated Society of Musicians at Brighton last week. Calling for an inquiry into the activities ...

... COVENT GARDEN LA TRAVIATA On Tuesday the Covent Garden Opera Trust presented a new production of Verdi's opera. La Traviata. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, though apologising for a bad thioat. gave such a brilliant peiformance as Violetta '.called in this ...

... COVENT GARDEN SCENES DE BALLET On Wednesday of last week the Covent Garden Opera Trust presented the Sadler's Wells Ballet in a new ballet with music by Igor Stravinsky, scenery and costumes by Andre Beaurepaire, and choreography by Frederick Ashton ...

... COVENT GARDEN GISELLE. On wednesday of last week, at the Royal Opera, the Covent Garden Opera Trust presented the Sadler's Wells Ballet, under the direction of Ninette de Valois, in a new production of Giselle. Romance is the kevnote of this new ...