Criticks Reviews

Four contrasting approaches to Handel in the opening days of the 2018 Halle Festival.

Event Date(s): 27th May 2018 - 29th May 2018

Location: Halle an der Saale, Germany

Reviewed by: Ivan Ćurković, University of Zagreb

A welcome performance of Mozart's first full-length opera.

Event Date(s): 6th Jun 2018 - 8th Jun 2018

Location: Southbank Centre, London

Reviewed by: Taylin Nelson, King's College London

An enjoyable and atmospheric radio adaptation.

Event Date(s): 31st Dec 2016

Reviewed by: Amy Lim, University of Oxford

A recent exhibition sheds light on the European Romantic Tour's translation into American landscape painting.

Event Date(s): 30th Jan 2018 - 13th May 2018

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Reviewed by: Yasemin Nurcan Hacioglu, University of Oslo

A site that combines fun commentary with an attention to historical detail.

Reviewed by: Macon St Hilaire, Austin Peay State University

An exhibition demonstrating the beauty, lively elegance and wit of eighteenth-century Prague.

Event Date(s): 1st Dec 2017 - 18th Mar 2018

Location: National Gallery, Prague

Reviewed by: Caroline Cannon-Brookes

Eighteenth-century book illustration in the spotlight.

Event Date(s): 18th Feb 2018 - 5th Aug 2018

Location: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

Reviewed by: Kwinten Van De Walle, Ghent University

A welcome revival, but Dryden's work requires more rigorous examination.

Event Date(s): 2nd Feb 2018 - 4th Mar 2018

Location: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London

Reviewed by: Jessica Davidson, Oxford University

The eighteenth-century soap opera rolls on into an age of revolution.

Event Date(s): 11th Jun 2017

Reviewed by: Amy Milka, University of Adelaide

A programme highlighting the use of double reed and brass instruments in Telemann’s ensemble work.

Event Date(s): 20th Jan 2018

Location: St. Andrew’s and St. George’s West, Edinburgh

Reviewed by: Michael Graham, University of Edinburgh

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