How long before Ofop steps in?
Patrick Carnegy
- In House: Covent Garden, 50 Years of Opera and Ballet by John Tooley
Faber, 318 pp, £25.00, November 1999, ISBN 0 571 19415 X - Never Mind the Moon: My Time at the Royal Opera House by Jeremy Isaacs
Bantam, 356 pp, £20.00, November 1999, ISBN 0 593 04355 3
As the Royal Opera House staged its grand reopening, two of its former bosses filed conflicting accounts of its recent history. Both John Tooley (1970-88) and Jeremy Isaacs (1988-97) describe the House’s considerable achievements over the past half-century; and Isaacs’s part in pushing through the magnificent rebuilding was heroic. What we still want to know is why things also went so cataclysmically wrong.
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