by Web Editor | Oct 31, 2016 | Visual Arts
Clare Finn Winifred Nicholson spent much of her life in Cumberland; she both grew up and lived there during and after her marriage to Ben Nicholson. Thus Abbot Hall’s current exhibition curated by her grandson, Jovan Nicholson, is well placed. The gallery has had a... 
by Web Editor | Oct 31, 2016 | Music
Rhinal tap Jessica Duchen For Barrie Kosky’s Royal Opera debut you could only expect the unexpected. The Australian director, head of Berlin’s Komische Oper, picked a work that has never before been staged at Covent Garden. It’s an extravagant, radical and often very... 
by Web Editor | Oct 24, 2016 | Music
Nautical but nice Tom Sutcliffe Britten’s operas are often about ordinary people asking themselves if they got some challenge in their lives right or wrong. The issue of judgment really was what propelled Britten’s instinct for drama, and it is absolutely central for... 
by Web Editor | Oct 19, 2016 | Music
Nuclear family Tom Sutcliffe Glyndebourne’s tour is this year cut back to only two (immensely popular) operas: Puccini’s great weepy Madama Butterfly, in a new staging likely to transfer to the summer festival 2018, and Jonathan Kent’s Don Giovanni, created in 2010.... 
by Web Editor | Oct 10, 2016 | Music
Knave of trumps Robert Thicknesse Two Mozart/da Ponte shows running at the same time in London give a picture of what we stand to lose if ENO goes down the pan. At Covent Garden, a tricksy, self-regarding Così, packed to the rafters, and at ENO an engaged and... 