The Critics

Turandot, Royal Opera

The Western art world lays the conceptual ground for a civilisational transition, then lacks the critical nerve to digest it

We should celebrate artists for what they do, not who they are

What plays out as limpid tragedy on the page becomes trouser-dropping farce

In becoming Bob Dylan, Robert Zimmerman entered a mysterious, invisible world

Radio Times has become the mouthpiece of the BBC’s re-education unit

A House of Dynamite deserves a genre all its own

“Blue Velvet” is a sinister, savage take on male violence and a feminine urge for vengeance

Just as Ana de Armas was the heart of the first Knives Out, Josh O’Connor is this one’s

Partenope, English National Opera, Coliseum