Anvil chorus Anvil chorus

“I currently await, with trepidation, something set in the lavatories of a gay night club,”.”

on April 09, 2016 at 1:49 PM
I have seen the future and it is posh I have seen the future and it is posh

The visionary Rupert Christiansen peers into the mists of the not-yet and apprehends the perfection of the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk.

on May 31, 2015 at 11:40 AM
“And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?” “And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?”

“This is wrong, wrong, wrong and a betrayal of the spirit of ENO’s Founding Fathers.”

on April 22, 2015 at 2:30 PM
I have ever used to set the last Judgment Day before mine eyes I have ever used to set the last Judgment Day before mine eyes

“That pathetic old woman is also a great and noble queen.”

on November 07, 2014 at 10:07 AM
“Specialist subject, the bleeding obvious” “Specialist subject, the bleeding obvious”

Jonathan Miller‘s Carmen for Mid Wales Opera has no sexual electricity, complains Rupert Christiansen

on September 07, 2014 at 2:35 PM
Fish are jumping and the dudgeon is high Fish are jumping and the dudgeon is high

“Quaint camp, says Rupert Christiansen.”

on June 04, 2014 at 12:08 PM
KIngdom of the blind KIngdom of the blind

Cher public, you know that Rupert Christiansen is not someone with whom your doyenne often agrees, but this time he’s got it right.

on May 21, 2014 at 11:10 AM
On this island On this island

“The Valerie Masterson of our generation!”

on March 02, 2014 at 9:16 PM
I’ve something to say that’s less than urgent I’ve something to say that’s less than urgent

peaking of vicious-minded small town gossips, Rupert Christiansen (not pictured) is at his exercise again this morning, trying to tempt Dame Felicity Palmer into saying unpleasant things about David Alden and Richard Jones.

on January 29, 2014 at 10:40 AM
Why Rupert Christiansen is the wrong commentator about gay rights protesters Why Rupert Christiansen is the wrong commentator about gay rights protesters

The veteran British critic click-whored

on November 08, 2013 at 11:00 AM
“Where was Liam Joshua?” “Where was Liam Joshua?”

Anyone looking for orgiastic obscenity in Calixto Bieito‘s production of Carmen at the London Coliseum, will be bitterly disappointed, writes Rupert Christiansen.

on November 22, 2012 at 12:02 PM