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Arts criticism—what’s the point?

Jenna Simeonov asks…is there room for ‘biased’ observers in the classical media?

There’s a question that has lingered, passive and benign, around the topic of arts criticism. And for me in particular, in recent months it has grown into an insistent, tangible problem craving a real solution.

What is the function of criticism in the realms of opera and classical music? Or, more

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