Rupert Christiansen (born 1954) is an English writer, journalist and critic.
[2] He has written a number of books, winning the Somerset Maugham Award in 1988 for Romantic Affinities.
[5] In 2022, he was appointed dance critic of The Spectator and was Dramaturg for Dickie Beau's Showmanism!
[6] Between 2014 and 2016, he was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at University of East Anglia,[7] and since 2016 he has been Collaborating Research Scholar at Keble College, Oxford, where he also teaches.
Christiansen stood down as opera critic of The Daily Telegraph in 2020.,[9] but continues to write for the paper as a book reviewer and commentator on the arts.