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Gala Performance
An anniversary and a new ballet: thirty-five years on the stage for Dame Margot Fontey , and a gala premiere to commemorate it.
The ballet is Pelleas et Melisande, created to the music of Schoenberg by the famous French choreographer Roland Petit, whose own company celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this year. It forms part of next Wednesday's gala evening at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in honour of Dame Margot, and in it she herself dances with Rudolf Nureyev.
Release watches the ballet in rehearsal and talks with three of the brightest stars in the world of ballet: Fonteyn, Nureyev and Petit.

Twenty Years On
In 1949 Angus Wilson published his first book, The Wrong Set. This book of short stories was greeted with universal acclaim and proved a significant influence in the years that followed. It has been reprinted now to mark the twentieth anniversary. How much has the writing of fiction in England changed during these years and how does Angus Wilson see his own contribution?

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