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Time to bring down the curtain on stage critics' sexism by Susannah Clapp

A week in which male reviewers provoked a storm by calling opera singer Tara Erraught 'unsightly' has provoked a much-needed debate on sexist attitudes in arts criticismBelow, women in the arts give their views on the controversyThe row about Tara Erraught and her body-bashing critics is both terrible and useful. Following her Glyndebourne debut in the "trouser role" of Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, the 27…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on May 24, 2014

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