Arts
A masterclass in stage presence from the Bolshoi
Jewels is everything a George Balanchine admirer could ask for. The sumptuous triptych, set to scores by Fauré, Stravinsky and…
Wagner at the Proms
It would be interesting to know why Tristan und Isolde was placed in the Proms programme in between Siegfried and…
Big School left me po-faced
How did our comedies become so sad? BBC1’s new sitcom Big School (Fridays) opened with a scene that would probably…
Kate Chisholm connects to her inner tortoise
Of course there’s a future for digital radio, it’s just that we’ll probably be listening to it online, or on…
Climb aboard the runaway train
Brother, can you spare me a train? Or maybe just a Pullman carriage or two? There are so many brilliant…
All aboard!
Brother, can you spare me a train? Or maybe just a Pullman carriage or two? There are so many brilliant…
All aboard!
Brother, can you spare me a train? Or maybe just a Pullman carriage or two? There are so many brilliant…
A trio of gems
Jewels is everything a George Balanchine admirer could ask for. The sumptuous triptych, set to scores by Fauré, Stravinsky and…
Highlights of the Edinburgh Art Festival
Claudia Massie is impressed by this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival
A mega-musical that’s like watching the Downton cast crammed into a telephone kiosk
Hats off for theatrical recklessness. The producer Danielle Tarento has taken a $10-million Broadway mega-musical and staged it in the…
Samuel Courtauld’s great collection
In 1929, Samuel Courtauld owned the most important collection of works by Paul Gauguin in England: five paintings, ten woodcuts…
Hell is other people’s taste in music
‘I don’t really like most of the music you play,’ said the tall blonde woman with whom I share my…
It’s possible that Deborah Ross left her critical faculties outside the screening room
The thing is, I love the character of Alan Partridge so much it may well be that, when it came…
Is this the best Ring ever?
The first complete performance of Wagner’s Ring cycle at the Proms is already, less than a week after its conclusion,…
The Bolshoi remains faithful to the classics
Tradition is often frowned on. Yet, if properly handled, it can be sheer fun and pure bliss, as demonstrated by…
Is David Starkey God?
‘Somerset. Winter 877,’ said the subtitles below an arty, BBC-nature-doc style close-up of a coot paddling amid the reeds on…
A bearded, medallion-wielding, miniature puppet won’t persuade us to go digital
Will digital radio ever really take off? We were supposed to be switching over to digital-only reception in 2015 (three…
Send George Osborne to the Tower
Send George Osborne to the Tower, then he might learn that currency manipulation rarely ends well. Coins and Kings occupies…
Making a mint
Send George Osborne to the Tower, then he might learn that currency manipulation rarely ends well. Coins and Kings occupies…
Making a mint
Send George Osborne to the Tower, then he might learn that currency manipulation rarely ends well. Coins and Kings occupies…
Hooked on classics
Tradition is often frowned on. Yet, if properly handled, it can be sheer fun and pure bliss, as demonstrated by…
How Manet was influenced by the artists of the Renaissance
Roderick Conway Morris on the French master’s love affair with the art and artists of the Renaissance
Compare and contrast Rodin and Moore
One generation is usually so busy reacting against its predecessors that it can take years for a balanced appreciation of…
70th anniversary of Composer of the Week
Mention of the 70th anniversary of Composer of the Week brings to mind a distinguished list of long-running programmes on…
Thwarted love between geriatrics
This is brilliant. The new play by Oliver Cotton, a 69-year-old actor, is set in New York in 1986. An…
