Before Mozart Was Mozart
A Japanese director in Berlin gives the teenage whiz kid’s first operatic hit a dazzling makeover
Carla Frayman
The jet-setting D.J. who goes by “Carlita” uses her classical-music background to curate sets for party-goers around the world
Cleopatra vs. Caliban
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller trade off as Frankenstein and the Creature in the National Theatre’s 2011 take on Mary Shelley’s masterpiece
Step-Mama’s Boy
Verdi’s season-opening Don Carlo from the Teatro San Carlo, Naples
A Different Kind of Holiday
How to enjoy Christmas alone in the big city
Fighting Spirit
For World Opera Day, seven companies join forces to showcase Ukraine’s Golden Crown
Suzanne Vega Is Watching You
The singer-songwriter performs her folk-pop hits at City Winery in Greenwich Village
Fetch Me Her Slippers
From Frankfurt, Rimsky-Korsakov’s shaggy-dog Christmas Eve, a tranche of tsarist holiday cheer that resembles Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker not at all
Borodino or Bust
Sergei Bondarchuk’s monumental 60s film series, War and Peace, is as relevant than ever
Out for Blood
A century after Nosferatu’s release, Berlin’s National Gallery explores the enduring influence of F. W. Murnau’s vampire film
Picture Imperfect
Damien Chazelle calls his new film, Babylon, “a hate letter to Hollywood and a love letter to movies”
And the Award Goes to…
At the 2022 International Opera Awards, Kris Defoort’s The Time of Our Singing wins for best World Premiere
Animal Instinct
A new film by the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski offers a prescient look at mankind today, through the eyes of a sympathetic, non-human protagonist
Last Laugh
From the National Theatre, London, a rare revival of George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem
A Mania for Egyptomania
Early next month, the “Magnificent Jewels” sale at Sotheby’s New York will include nearly a dozen superb pieces of Egyptian Revival jewelry
All Roads Lead to Paolo Di Paolo
Ahead of a new movie by Bruce Weber on the forgotten photographer and chronicler of postwar Italy, we collect some of his most memorable pictures
Yabba Dabba Doo!
With two sellout world tours and 430 million downloads, Britain’s most successful comedy podcast, My Dad Wrote a Porno, has finally reached its climax
Otello in Athens
Robert Wilson tackles Verdi in the birthplace of tragedy
Ludlow, Lady Gaga, and Me
In 2006, Pianos, on Ludlow Street, was a divey service-industry spot attracting the likes of Sweetbitter author Stephanie Danler—and a pre-fame Lady Gaga
Singing the Lady Electric
In the five decades since Jimi Hendrix founded Electric Lady, on West Eighth Street, the music studio has kept its look—and caliber—intact
Street Scenes
A collection of Saul Leiter’s newly discovered color photographs offers a rare look at his pioneering, painterly vision