AUGUST ART AND ARCHITECTURE ARTICLES AND MORE FROM MEMBERS OF THE CRITICS’ CIRCLE
In this post, we summarise all the articles by the Critics’ Circle members on art and architecture during August 2025.
Agrippina, Zurich Opera
by Fiona Hook Not every modernisation of a historical opera works, but Jetske Mijnssen’s successful transposition of Handel’s chunk of Roman history to modern-day New York is a reminder that human nature and the lust for power are eternal – it just takes...
Il trovatore, Royal Opera
by Robert Thicknesse You approach any performance of Trovatore with a mix of gloating anticipation and trepidation. Could anything be more visceral, more utterly operatic, more grippingly awful and exhilarating? And yet so often it fails to hit the mark, its...
JUNE ART AND ARCHITECTURE ARTICLES AND MORE FROM MEMBERS OF THE CRITICS’ CIRCLE
In this post we sum up all the articles and speaking engagements by members of the Critics’ Circle on art and architecture, during June.
May Art and Architecture Articles and More from Members of the Critics’ Circle
In this post we sum up all the articles and speaking engagements by members of the Critics’ Circle on art and architecture, during May.