Forces of Nature
The renowned photographer Karsh shot some of the 20th century’s most remarkable women
Ahoy for a Shipwreck
In Houston, Louisa Muller directs a long-neglected operatic masterpiece
Danse Macabre
A wicked Rigoletto on the floating stage of Bregenz, Austria
Poster Boy
The illustrator Paul Davis’s subtly Surrealist posters for theaters, movies, and museums get their own show in Italy
Sleeping Beauty, Re-awakened
The Vienna State Ballet’s new production of the fairy tale adds substance to the gossamer world
Getting It Right
For the British playwright Alan Bennett, other people’s lives are just the dress rehearsal
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
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
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
The Anxiety of Assimilation
The powerful new play Leopoldstadt mirrors its author’s journey from Tomáš Sträussler to Tom Stoppard
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
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
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
Julius Caesar takes the Big Peach
The Atlanta Opera’s Handel is anything but stuffy
