by Music Editor | May 11, 2022 | Awards, Music, Uncategorized
The Music Section of The Critics’ Circle is delighted to announce the winners of our Awards for 2020 and 2021 Young Talent (Composer) Alex Ho Young Talent (Conductor) Jonathon Heyward Young Talent (Voice) William Thomas Young Talent...
by Lucien Jenkins | Mar 6, 2022 | Music
WNO’s latest staging of Katie Mitchell’s staging of Jenůfa (revived by director Eloise Lally) is given an additional layer of significance by current events. Janáček’s is an opera in a Slav language, in a production with various Slav participants, chronicling...
by Fiona Hook | Feb 2, 2022 | Music, Uncategorized
I’m an opera critic. I’m not there to enjoy myself. So I always feel a little fraudulent when a trip to the opera presents an evening of pure pleasure. David McVicar’s 2006 staging of Figaro, the opera’s 1786 setting transposed to a country house in 1830, is...
by Guy Rickards | Dec 5, 2021 | Awards, Music
Much delayed by the Coronavirus pandemic and resulting restrictions, the final one of the Music Section’s 2020 Awards for Young Talent was presented to violist Timothy Ridout onstage at The Wigmore Hall at a lunchtime concert on Saturday, November 27th 2021. The...
by Guy Rickards | Dec 5, 2021 | Awards, Music
The presentation of the Music Section’s Awards for 2020 (based on activity carried out during the previous year) has been much disrupted by the Coronavirus pandemic. The Section prefers to present the Awards wherever possible at concerts featuring the artists...
by Music Editor | Nov 27, 2021 | Music
By Robert Thicknesse How do you turn a Hammer horror into a tragedy? It confronts every director of Verdi’s take on Shakespeare. Part of it is that the mid-19th century had such different ideas of drama (and of Shakespeare) from us, another that Verdi (and his...
