Mozart
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Why it’s time to drop Don Giovanni
Mariame Clément’s new production of Don Giovanni falls prey to modern mores.
It’s not for kids
Children are always unwelcome in Opera, except in The Magic Flute
Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
Do not go gently
Opera has treated the subject of cancelling the pleasures of others in some depth
Men beware women
How we underestimate the women in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
