by Mark Pullinger | Dec 31, 2018 | Music
The Music Section of the Critics’ Circle is delighted to announce the recipients of its 2018 Awards which are as follows: Emerging Talent (Conductor): Karina Canellakis Considering she only made her conducting debut in 2014, encouraged by Sir Simon Rattle... 
by Rich Cline | Dec 18, 2018 | Film
Pedro Almodóvar is named as recipient of the London critics’ top honour, The Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film, as Yorgos Lanthimos’ Queen Anne drama The Favourite picks up 10 nominations across the board. Presented by Dover Street Entertainment,... 
by Alexandra Coghlan | Dec 15, 2018 | Music
Now brush your teeth The Royal Opera’s brief to director Antony McDonald was simple: create a production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel that does for Christmas opera what The Nutcracker does for ballet. His answer is picture-postcard pretty – a nineteenth-century,... 
by Music Editor | Dec 7, 2018 | Film
The London-based media group Dover Street Entertainment returns as headline sponsor for the awards, which will be held for a seventh year at The May Fair Hotel. British actors Molly Wright and Lee Shone will announce the nominations for the 39th London Critics’... 
by Music Editor | Dec 6, 2018 | Music, Uncategorized
Weeping songs By Robert Thicknesse How many gloomy songs can you take at one sitting? The Spitalfields Festival invited its audience to test its mettle in this programme of downbeat (or even deadbeat) numbers by Purcell, Blow, John Dowland, Pelham Humfrey, and one... 