October ART AND ARCHITECTURE ARTICLES AND MORE FROM MEMBERS OF THE CRITICS’ CIRCLE
A summary all the articles by the Critics’ Circle members on art and architecture written in October 2025.
Flighty, frothy, with sharp suits and a tap-dance, Handel’s Partenope is Fun!
The cast of ENO’s Partenope, 2025 (c) Lloyd Winters ENO / William Cole The Coliseum, London, 22 November 2025 A week may be a long time in politics but three-and-a-half hours is a goodly while in comic opera. However, despite a convoluted, frivolous plot that is...
Past, Present, and Future Fuse in Donghoon Shin’s new Piano Concerto
Soloist, composer and conductor take their bow at the Barbican, 20 November 2025. Photo (c) Mark Allan 2025 Seong-Jin Cho, piano; London Symphony Orchestra / Maxime Pascal Barbican Concert Hall, London, 20 November 2025 Donghoon Shin’s new Piano Concerto (2024-25) is...
The Railway Children is a first-class ride
The Railway Children: Henna Mun (Phyllis), Jessica Cale (Bobbie), Matthew McKinney (Peter). Photo: Richard Hubert Smith After his visceral but wonderful Festen, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s operatic take on Edith Nisbet’s The Railway Children was likely to prove...