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Opera Pick of the Week

The Opéra de Paris comes back to life with The Satin Slipper, Marc-André Dalbavie’s epic of thwarted desire

Every Trick in the Book

The magician, professional gambler, and sometime fraudster Steve Forte is spilling his secrets

Pippa Latour de Force

She tricked Nazis into spilling their secrets by posing as a chatty teenage soap saleswoman and just celebrated her 100th birthday

Opera Pick of the Week

From Houston Grand Opera, a green-screen Hansel and Gretel with TikTok flair

La Scala’s Shining Star

Remembering the Italian ballerina Carla Fracci, Milan’s star dancer who died last month aged 84

Opera Pick of the Week

From Toronto’s Opera Atelier, a Niagara of Baroque images for Handel’s The Resurrection

Dance Is Back!

Opera Pick of the Week

A new production of Aribert Reimann’s Lear premieres at the Bavarian State Opera

Opera Pick of the Week

Bulgaria’s native son Orlin Anastasov shines in the Sofia Opera’s outdoor Attila

Deeper Than the Deep Blue Sea

An exhibition at the Fondation Carmignac’s Mediterranean villa focuses on the colors, movement, and creatures of the sea

Tyler Mahan Coe

The man behind the podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones brought country music and its history to a new generation. Three years later, he’s back

Prodigious Young Women

From Kate Middleton to Samantha Cameron to Oscar winner Emerald Fennell, what is it about Marlborough College, the leafy British boarding school?

Annie Clark’s 70s Show

St. Vincent’s latest album, the 70s-themed Daddy’s Home, is releasing in a wave of bad P.R. It’s so good you’ll listen anyway

Diva’s Welcome Back

An interview with French composer Marc-André Dalbavie, whose Le Soulier de Satin, based on the play by Paul Claudel, marks the Paris Opera’s reopening

Opera Pick of the Week

Anthony Davis commemorates the massacre that rocked Tulsa 100 years ago with Fire Across the Tracks, part of the Tulsa Opera’s pandemic recital program Greenwood Overcomes

Shamier Anderson

The actor toughed it out in L.A. until he got his big break. Now he’s giving back with a nonprofit that encourages aspiring actors in Toronto’s inner city

Opera Pick of the Week

A digital reboot of the Houston Grand Opera’s Marian’s Song features a libretto by the city’s first Black poet laureate

Opera Pick of the Week

The Los Angeles Opera mounts a rare revival of Joseph Bologne’s L’Amant Anonyme with a cast from its young-artists program

Bourgeois Fever

A long career. A merciless eye. Implacable life force. In museums and galleries, Louise Bourgeois is the queen to Picasso’s king

Where Art and Architecture Meet

An interview with the Italian designer Vincenzo de Cotiis, whose savagely sleek work fuses art and architecture with interior design

Broadway’s Light

Big Bird Goes Blue

Opera Pick of the Week

Daniel Catán adapts Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” for a Chicago Opera Theater Spanish-language performance

A Happy Accident

Fame didn’t come overnight for Tony-winning actor John Cullum. The film An Accidental Star traces his road from the American South to the Broadway stage