by Web Editor | Mar 30, 2016 | Music
Gustav by Gustavo Rick Jones The Los Angeles Philharmonic capped its most recent visit to London with a Maundy Thursday performance of Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony under their young Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. The honeymoon is over for the Venezuelan who was... 
by Web Editor | Mar 20, 2016 | Music
Nasty business Lucien Jenkins With Rossini’s Barber of Seville, the first of their trilogy of Figaro operas, Welsh National Opera set out their stall. Sue Blane’s costumes were bright, Ralph Koltai’s set was contrastingly downbeat, the activity of Sam Brown’s... 
by Web Editor | Mar 18, 2016 | Film
A pledge for pay #criticscode Skilled professionals should be paid for their work, yet a growing number of businesses are asking writers and broadcasters to provide their services for free. The undersigned members of The Critics’ Circle Film Section voluntarily pledge... 
by Web Editor | Mar 17, 2016 | Visual Arts
Edward Lucie-Smith The new exhibition at the National Gallery in London is entitled ‘Delacroix – And the Rise of Modern Art’. In other words, Delacroix, one of the most important artists of te first half of the 19th century, is presented as being important, not so... 
by Web Editor | Mar 16, 2016 | Music
Not really Godunov Tom Sutcliffe Richard Jones’s new Royal Opera production of Boris Godunov is excessively house-trained. Has there ever been so tidy a production of Mussorgsky’s sprawling epic? Admittedly this original 1869 completion, a version never before staged... 