END OF ERA

Anthony Dowell’s tenure as director of Lonond’s Royal Ballet has been a mixed affair. “What makes a good director? The question has never been more of a poser than during Dowell’s captaincy of the ballet, in the most turbulent years of the Royal Opera House’s history. The organisation has struggled with vast debts, the closure and rebuilding of the theatre, and a serious loss of public affection.” The Telegraph (UK) 07/29/01