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THE GUARDIAN Saturday March 31 1990 ARTS, PERSONAL 21 Edward Greenfield on a high-tech twist to a very traditional Wagner Moved to tiers Long rubbers and soft dummies fussed by the continued milling Nancy Banks-Smith WHAT are you to make of an opera production that takes you through Cve hours of solidly traditional Wagner and then suddenly launches you into hi-tech fantasy? Covent Garden has revamped its 1969 production of Wagner's Meistcrsinger. keeping the old, vividly realistic sets of Barry Kay until the final scene. There he imports, in the harsh glare of unrelieved electric blue a utility grandstand, supported by struts and wires, and surmounted by plastic and aluminium canopies with a Japanese look more apt for Madam Butterfly. It was like having a comfortable evening in a favourite easy chair made all the easier by John Cox's solidly traditional resta'ging. full of old-fashioned theatrical gestures only to be pitched out at the end and forced to perch on lightweight utility furniture.

The culprit is the architect, Michael Hopkins, designer of the much-praised new pavilion at Lords. At least there was no nonsense about updating the costumes for that close, and you could argue that Mr Hopkins's grandstand had the merit of being quick to erect, and with the chorus in tiers, helped to give extra weight to the great final ensemble and its hymn to holy German art. Otherwise it was not a weighty performance, though a strong and well-drilled one. Christoph von Dohnanyi. conducting Wagner for the first time at Covent Garden, whizzed us purposefully through the expansive piece quicker than I have ever known, clarifying textures to draw marvellously luminous sounds from the orchestra, but not always lifting rhythms out of the squareness that in this opera always presents a danger.

On the one hand he gave us a refreshing spring clean, but he also underlined the opera's solidly Germanic qualities. There were a number of performances to remember. Felicity Lott, singing her very first Wagner, made a charming, vivacious Eva. If earlier the voice was not always at its sweetest, she rose superbly to the big challenge of the great quintet which ends the long first scene of Act 3. There, as Sachs drew her forward, she seemed totally at ease in the glorious of her big solo, singing so radiantly as to blunt even the shock of having Mr Hopkins' final set unveiled a moment later.

Among the home team, too. Gwynne Howell drew a beautifully rounded portrait of Eva's father, making Pogner's address to his daughter at the start of Act 2 one of the most moving passages of all. The other Masters made a characterful team both visually and vocally, and it was good to spot Francis Egerton as Balthasar Zorn made up to look exactly like the diminutive Wagner. Bernd Weikl was a forthright Sachs, singing cleanly and strongly. With this youngish-looking, upstanding figure, one missed the more genial, more benevolent side of the cobbler's character, and he was not helped at the end of Act 1, when Sachs's musings so movingly indicated in the score were strong gravitational pull.

"My friend Imran Khan, who is a famous cricketer and a very popular man with the ladies, has bodyguards outside his room warding women off. I have guys warding them in. Maybe I'm good for nothing but what are we here for?" He learned bridge when he took a fancy to a strictly chaperoned Pakistani girl, who was only allowed to go to bridge parties. The girl seems to have vanished without trace; bridge became the grand passion. "It is more exciting than a James Bond movie.

Everyone wants to fall in love with their partner or kill their partner. I've played backgammon and poker and chess, but none of them begins to "ompare with the depth of bridge, with the liveliness and excitement. It's almost romantic. Every now and then when you play bridge you get a feeling of such extreme beauty. Computers, though they have photographic memories and mathematical minds, can't play bridge, which is from the heart." Arena's flibbertigibbet The English Rose (BBC2) was a bit of a mixed bunch tied with a shoestring.

No mention of the New Socialist Rose now there's a funny thing but a PHOTOGRAPH CLIVE BABDA WHO is Zia Mali-mood? Take that look off your face, I can see through your smile. You think he must be that one with the moustache and the swagger stick. Zia Mah-mood. it turns out in the lucid and amusing Ace Of Hearts (CD. is very big in bridge.

He is also excellent company. His friends, passing through his effervescence, all come up bubbling, which may be the secret of being excellent company. Most of his stories start, "I have a good friend "There is a Pakistani friend of mine who. when he comes to the table, always puts a little revolver on the seat next to him so his partner shall be intimidated and not over bid too much." Yes, that should do it. "I had a very, very good friend, when we were training to be chartered accountants, and he was a Jewish Indian dwarf.

I said one day. you are Jewish and Indian and a dwarf how can you be so happy at 8.0 in the morning?" He said, "Somebody just invented the Then there is his friend Benito Garozzo. a bridge player with a look of ingrained gloom. "Benito is very superstitious. Every years at 12 o'clock on December 31 he takes off his trousers and moons towards the full moon.

He believes that brings him luck. Sorry Benito," beamed Zia. showing no dis-cernable sign of sorrow. An 87-year-old American multi-millionaire he plays with passes the time when he is dummy by reading the newspapers and, when he sees a sad case, sends his secretary to investigate and give anything up to $10 million. "I make the rubber longer because the longer he is cut out the more money he is giving to people." You begin to look at bridge players with a new eye and slightly sideways.

The least bizarre of this bunch was the Jewish Indian dwarf. He. you notice, didn't play bridge. He is a great star among bridge players and stars exert a The Pit Nicholas de Jongh Singer A SINGLE scene of Peter Flan-nery's Singer, a three-hour moral epic set in amoral times and first seen in Stratord last year, takes place in Auschwitz. But it is the Nazi concentration camp which is lodged at the grim epicentre.

For Auschwitz, teaches Singer, the play's eponymous central figure, that survival may depend upon bartering, intrigue and power-play; that no natural justice exists and that the collective memory is quickly distracted by the baubles of time. Flannery traces Singer's progress across 40years, with Joe Melia far too jovial as a redundant narrative commentator. Here is a speculator's rise from the slums of post-war Bays-water to a Hampstead mansion, with high life, champagne and freelance lechery amid the go-getting aristocrats. Peter Rach-man, the 1960s property speculator, is clearly Singer's model. But Flannery does not simply Obituary: Zenon Rossides Yesterday's weather Around the world ot apprentices.

The most striking portrait, not at all a conventional one, came from Hermann Prey as Beckmcsser. His very first entry, looking impish, eyes sparkling with malice, had one riveted, and the only danger through the evening was that one sympathised too actively with the predatory town clerk. As he himself had promised, he avoided clowning, yet the failure of the production in Act 2 to find the full measure of fun in Beckmesser's discomfiture was due less to him than to Dohnan-yi's brisk timing. Reiner Goldberg as Walther. one of the few singers not new to his role at Covent Garden, was powerful, but generally failed to get out of the grittiness that besets even the most noted Heldentenoren today.

The American, Robert Gam-bill, sang well as David, but so tall and upstanding a figure looked out of character when required to scamper as an apprentice. Yet he and the Magdalene, Anne Howells. made a handsome, sympathetic couple. hardly suited to Moody's public persona today: the fast-talking wordsmith whose mix of one-liners and non sequiturs sometimes touches surreal heights. That's not the only change.

Many jaz2 musicians stick to a formula from their youth, while others leap on any bandwagon that happens to pass. Moody is one of the handful to renew his style while remaining recognis-ably himself, and to do so without losing the knack of communicating. Offering a ready means of comparing old with new, he closed the first set at Ronnie Scott's with a blues he recorded some 40 years ago as a young saxophonist in the shadow of Lester Young and Charlie Parker. Even then, the plaintive sound and the off-centre phrasing had given his solo an identity all its own. The sound has grown blustery and his adherence to the post-Coltrane harmonic vocabulary was virtually complete.

Yet his timing remained as elastic as ever, imparting a different shape to each of the many choruses while driving hard enough to keep us swaying along with the beat. ambassador Panayotacos another time I might have tried to be a full-time poet." W. J. Weatherby. Zenon Rossides.

born Limassol Februarv 8. 1895; died New York March 13. 1990. of optimism amid the narcotic-driven mayhem. Thus, in an article for the Times last year praising the beauty and character of Medellin, he noted how "bosses and workers address each other with the familiar tu or vos unthinkable in Bogota" and illustrated the point by recalling a US Drug Enforcement Agency picture showing Pablo Escobar Gavria, godfather of the Medellin cartel, cheerfully helping load sacks of cocaine on to a plane.

Michael Whit Geoffrey Matthews, born October 8, 1945; died February 16, 1990. It was entirely typical that one of the last occasions on which I saw him was at the world's first 'Green pantomime' in Camden, put on by friends from the North-west. He canvassed for It from that other panto in the Palace of Westminster to improve their environmental awareness. Binding a severed isle Hermann Prey as Beckmesser Moody was among the first saxophonists to take up the flute, and his reading of Waves showed him still more sensitive than most to its reedy tonal qualities. And for the ultimate change of pace, he sang King Pleasure's words to his original solo on I'm In The Mood For Love that launched the craze for vocalese.

Otherwise, the set was dominated by the 12-bar blues in various guises, and Ron Matthew-son and Jason Rebello both seemed especially relaxed and inventive on All Blues. Young Vic Helen Rose The Miser MIKE Alfreds makes a welcome return to Britain, after an absence of some three years, and judging by the spirit and vigour of this production for the Oxford Stage Company he is on top form. Using his own sparkling new version of-Moliero's L'Avare, which shakes the dust off the original and burnishes it with a sharp Another Day March 31. 1946: Nuremberg consists of a large luxury hotel run by the American army and a large luxury courthouse, everything else a waste of corpse-scented rubble with a handful of middle-aged, middle-class Germans in Homburg hats picking their way through the ruins. We drove to the Sports Palace which is intact but probably due for demolition typical modern functional magnificence designed for mass parades, now full of German Jews in American uniforms photographing one another in the act of giving the Nazi salute from Hitler's rostrum.

About eighty per cent of the Americans in Nuremberg seemed to be Jews, for they alone speak German. A walk with Baedeker Birthdavs Today: Herb Alpert, band leader, 55; Richard Chamber-Iain, actor, 55; Sydney Chaplin, actor. 64; John Fowles, writer, 64; Sir Pat Lowry, President, Institute of Personnel Management, 70; "Red" Norvo, vibraphone player, 82; Nagisa Oshima, film director, 58; Right Rev. John Roberts, Abbot of Downside, 71; Dame Sheila Sherlock, Professor of Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, London University, 72; Derek Spencer, QC, a Recorder of the Crown Court, former Conservative MP, 54; Sir David Steel, MP, 52; Lord Trefgarne, Minister of State for Trade and Industry, 49; Sir Frederick Warner, FRS, Chemical engineer, visiting Professor, Essex University, 80; Sidney Weighell, former Gen eral Secretary National Union of Railwaymen, 68; Nicholas I nice bloom or two or three. Like Mr and Mrs Charlton, the national amateur champions, whose rose garden is a vision of inverted polystyrene cups and inflated plastic bags, placed over likely buds.

And a subaltern in the Royal Fusil-liers manfully trying to swallow a rose in honour of the Battle of Minden: "It's just like eating a mouthful of cream crackers, you go through the motions but it will not go down." And Jane Asher considering a vase of Jane Asher: "She's looking a bit droopy but she's virtually disease-free." Personally I rather fancy having a disease named after mo. Nothing terminal, some minor but embarrassing ailment. Or a small but painful fracture such as Graeme Garden and his father, finding the BBC's chief publicity officer spreadeagled in the snow, were able to diagnose as a "garden Doctors could have seminars and discuss, rather hopelessly, how to control me. Great men would go to bed with me. It beats having your head cut off an stuck in a jug.

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The play's second half is prised dramatically from the realistic frame in which Singer has been encased. The Auschwitz survivor, drowned in a Hampstead lake, emerges Phoenix-like to become first a hedonist amid sixties hippies; then a saviour of the down-and-outs and finally with two other concentration camp habitues, Manik, the brain-damaged communist and Stefan the altruistic Polish artist, he becomes an implacable revenger in pursuit of a sadistic camp guard. This Singer is quite at odds with the exploiter we have earlier seen, and the transformation is not convincingly justified or motivated. I think Flannery suggests that in the end Singer aspires to on the island in I960 a diplomatic coup famous for settling the hash of Henry Hopkinson (later Lord Colyton), the Conservative Colonial Office Minister who had been unwise enough to use the word "Never" during the protracted campaign for Cypriot independence. Rossides became both his country's first delegate to the United Nations and also the Cypriot ambassador to the United States, shuttling between Washington and New York.

During the civil war in Cyprus, after Turkish forces had invaded the island in 1974, he helped to arrange for the UN to settle the conflict and maintain a peace-keeping force on the island. He was also known for his work in promoting general disarmament. In his very limited spare time he used his mastery of Greek, French and English to write po- ity. To the respectable world the Colombians appeared to be outsiders, like him. Raised in Portsmouth, Matthews worked for the Reading Evening Post and later the London Evening News.

His career there ended after he failed to inform the office that his (unsuccessful) courtship of Miss South Africa compelled him to follow her home from London without further delay. He was usually luckier with girls. During his subsequent period of under-employment he painted Hastings Pier before finding work on Labour Weekly where he struck up a friendship with Lawrence Daly, the miners' leader, another complex climb this Eiger, the stubborn cheerfulness to which your notice referred was well to the fore. So was a personal warmth and interest in the quality of life that made him later such an effective Sront bench spokesman for the environment team. Allan remained true to his roots a down-to-earth Man just revenge and good, particu-lary when that good brings social reward.

But Fiannery's contentions and the form in which they are expressed quite fail to pass muster with me. There is cartoon-like animation and energy of performance in Terry Hands's appropriately sombre and lurid production, upon Simon Higlett's set of symbolically rotting bare boards. And Anthony Sher's Singer is a triumph of sheer Jonsonian energy and life relish, with greed and guile overlayed by an oleaginous charm. It is a mesmerising performance to watch, and is complemented powerfully by Mick Ford's Stefan, the voice of nagging conscience. Ronnie Scott's Ron Atkins James Moody LAST week you may have watched James Moody on the Jazz 625 revival on BBC2 act the silent straight man to Dizzy Gillespie's tomfoolery during the gaps between music.

A role Rossides in 1974 with Greek UN etry which was published in literary magazines in several countries, including Britain. He also wrote three books about the struggle for Cypriot independence. "I was born at a time when a Cypriot could only be a nationalist" he said once. "At man with a self-destructive streak. Fired by a colleague with enthusiasm to explore South America, he drifted from Mexico through the isthmus to Bogota.

There he worked for the chamber of commerce until he had enough money to risk freelance journalism. Seldom did a feature leave his hands without a quotation from his adopted hero, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from Borges. or from the poet, Jorge Robledo Ortiz. Alternatively there might be an anecdote about Castro or a reference to Graham Greene. Though increasingly fearful for Colombia's future, he usually managed to squeeze a note cunian with a dry wit entirely lacking the sourness or coldness that can sometimes mark Left politicians.

In recent years we had talked a lot about the pitfalls and opportunities of the explosion of interest in 'heritage' and history issues it was a policy area he was keen to develop and define further. and brilliant contemporary wit. Alfreds has conjured a piece of comic theatre which flows with the glittering enchantment of pennies raining from heaven. Paul Dart's set design comprises six draped, ruched upstage screens which are lifted with a flounce to reveal elegantly fashioned scenes from a four-poster bed to a bijoux garden, a dark and grimy kitchen to the Miser's padlocked chambers. Downstage a plain white circle forms the central playing area for a drama which unfurls with the crispness of new banknotes.

Old Harpagon is a miser whose legendary avarice has deprived his children, Elise and Cleante. not only of new clothes but also of any hope of happy matrimony. When he announces his intention of marrying Marianne, the girl Cleante has plcged his heart a complex, but rather half-hearted plot to thwart his designs takes muddles shape. The pivotal force and chief delight of the production is Roy Marsden's cringingly mean-spirited and paranoid miser Harpagon. It is a performance of control and perfection.

in the old town trying to identify the ruins. Then, sharp at 6.30. the social life began. Mer-vyn called for me, led me to a cocktail party. where we drank fresh young German champagne among various, mainly English officials of the court.

1 was surprised by their zeal and esprit de corps. In England we talk of the trials as an injudicious travesty. Here they believe their work to be valuable and know it to be arduous. Close acquaintance with their briefs has aroused ani mosity to the Germans such as I have not heard expressed for live years, we talked ot p.G. Wodehouse.

They wished to bring him to trial. (The Diaries Evelyn Waugh: Weidenfeld, 1976). Wintcrton, MP, 52. Tomorrow: David Gower. Leicester and England cricketer, 33: Sir Nicholas Henderson, Lord Warden of the Stan-neries and a Keeper of the Privy Seal of the Duke of Cornwall, former ambassador to the United States.

71; Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff, Professor emeritus of nursing, Manchester University, 64; Maxwell McGlashan, Professor emeritus of Chemistry, University College London, 66; All MacGraw, actress. 52; Mr Justice Mcpherson of Cluny, 27th Chief of Clan Mcpherson, 64; Sir Dimitri Obolensky, historian, 72: Charles Price, former American ambassador to Britain, 59; Steve Race, broadcaster, musician, author, 69, Debbie Reynolds, actress, singer, dancer, 58; Kathy Sto-bart, saxophonist, 65. we consider a true saint," says Carlos Jose Saavedra, a Nicara-guan who was helped as a youth by Fabretto. Fabretto, a familiar sight striding through Managua followed by a train of children raising money for the honoured last year by President Daniel Ortega for services to the community. Manuel Orozco, who was chosen by Fabretto to continue his work, said he had hoped that relatives of Fabretto in Italy would be able to come to his funeral but they had not been able to afford the air fare.

Father Rafael Fabretto, born 1920; died Morch 22, 1990. CYPRIOT nationalist and the representative ot uyprus at tne UN for 20 years. Zenon Rossides, who has died at the age of 95, spent much of his early adult life as a leading figure in the struggle for independence. He studied law in London and then returned to Cyprus and became involved with militant nationalist groups. From 1929 for three years he represented the National Council of Cyprus in London and in 1931, during an uprising on the island, he was arrested by the British colonial authorities and confined to the village of Kythrea for two years.

After the second world war he settled in London again to plead the Cypriot cause and helped to form in 1959 the London Joint Committee, representing Britain, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, which negotiated the establishment of a republic A witness of Colombian mayhem cloud 0' Iriiflo (air. Fq 'og h-n ram Si steel. Sn. no. S.

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