The Critics
Can arias ever be the reel deal?
Most film adaptations have been pale imitations weighed down with charmless music
Bob Dylan biopic: tangled up in true
Afterwards, we can explain to them why it’s got all the details completely wrong
Thomas Girtin: a YBA of yesteryear
At the time of his death, he had done more than Turner to show the possibilities of watercolour
Sara Wheeler on art was a winner
By telling her own story, Wheeler caught the ear of thousands like her
Spellbound by uncompromising weirdness
I loved Elektra’s sulky Riot Grrrl energy and Oedipus’s extraordinary choreography
Boulez celebrated but titans ignored
Two painful coincidences underline the imbalance of a presidential command
Opera as it should be
This, at last, is what the English National Opera is for
World peace and the meaning of life
What equips a podcaster to be a multi-dimensional philosopher king?
The good book?
The show is a handy barometer of changing sensitivities about free speech in comedy
French spy classic rebooted in English
It’s like being at a party with people you think you know — who then turn out to be someone else
