The Critics
Bach and forth
The Score – Theatre Royal Haymarket
When I talked over Franz Ferdinand
The only band I’ve seen and wish I’d been paying attention to
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?
