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From the Front Lines

Bernard-Henri Lévy’s new documentary gives an unflinching look at the brutality of Russia’s war on Ukraine

The Book of Life

The stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s best-selling novel A Little Life heads to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for its New York premiere

The Nuns’ Story

Live from San Francisco, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Poulenc’s gripping chronicle of the French Revolution

A Guide to Frieze London and Frieze Masters

If there’s one person who knows the fairs backwards and forwards, it’s Andrés Perez. Here, he suggests what to see and do this week

As Seen in Scandinavia

Erling Haaland

The Premier League’s latest superstar is so talented he might spoil the sport for good

Lift Every Voice and Sing

From Heartbeat Opera, a Fidelio for our time

The Anxiety of Assimilation

The powerful new play Leopoldstadt mirrors its author’s journey from Tomáš Sträussler to Tom Stoppard

Anthony Bourdain’s Last Days, Revisited

How the chef’s biographer got past the guardrails of France’s Le Chambard hotel and into the room where Bourdain took his last breath

Surveying Cézanne

Turning Point

Patrice Chéreau’s “Centennial Ring” at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976 changed history

Their Back Pages

The Byrds invented folk rock and went on to become founding fathers of psychedelic rock, jazz rock, and country rock. A new book revisits the band’s mid-60s prime

Incantation

Decaying film stock, the Song of Songs, and the seraphic soprano of Angel Blue

Lynn Goldsmith Has the Password

The American photographer infiltrated the world of music’s greats. Her portraits of Aretha Franklin, Cher, Bob Dylan, and countless others are collected in a new, 80s-themed coffee-table book

Hey, Genius

Cécile McLorin Salvant sings art songs for the new 20s

A Passage to India

Max Vadukul has spent the last few years chronicling India’s litter-and-pollution problem. The completed project goes on show this week in Milan

Julius Caesar takes the Big Peach

The Atlanta Opera’s Handel is anything but stuffy

Straight Lace

Open House

The James Rose Center, a modernist home in New Jersey, hosts an exhibition of art and furniture that align with the architecture’s Zen ethos

Ancient History

From operas on Nixon, Klinghoffer, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and women of the Gold Rush, John Adams progresses to Shakespeare

Moving Mountains

The Hidden Highsmith

A new documentary about the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley delves into the writer’s love life

The Yellow and the Blue

Led by their American music director Hobart Earle, the Odessa Philharmonic flies Ukraine’s colors in Berlin

Birkin’s Baggage

On the occasion of her new album, Jane Birkin looks back on old love