Opera Pick of the Week More Verdi from Muti’s La Scala: the Spanish tragedy Il Trovatore
September 17, 2021
Phillipa Soo She originated the role of Eliza Hamilton in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit. Now the American actress is branching out
Curtain Up on a New Era The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s incoming music director, Enrique Mazzola, strives for golden-age excellence—and a new populism
Opera Pick of the Week From La Scala, a timeless account of Verdi’s Un Ballo In Maschera led by Riccardo Muti, his supreme living interpreter
September 10, 2021
Isaac Benigson The British artist’s colorful work made it to London’s Royal Academy of Arts before he graduated from high school
Paging Picasso! A new book traces the painter’s life—Paris, women, wars, and all
Opera Pick of the Week The certain something in this pandemic Don Giovanni from Prague is the unique aura of the theater in which it was filmed
September 1, 2021
The Bright Side of Life A swarm of musicals open in London’s West End, proving that both the fun and the show must go on
Kate Moennig The actress’s pandemic podcast with The L Word co-star Leisha Hailey has become the new gay go-to
Joan of Art Joan Mitchell, who revolutionized postwar American art alongside “Ninth Street women” Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning, finally gets her due
Opera Pick of the Week Yuval Sharon’s Twilight: Gods crunches Richard Wagner’s four-night “Ring” cycle into a 60-minute crawl through a parking garage
August 27, 2021
An Icelandic River Runs Through It Forget polo: salmon fishing in the North Atlantic, a favorite of Eric Clapton and Prince Charles, is the real sport of kings
Opera Non Buffa Opera is back with the summer festivals of Salzburg, Bayreuth, and Aix-en-Provence, but it’s as bleak as Mozart’s Requiem
Opera Pick of the Week Stone Age Mozarteans up in arms about Munich’s new-school Idomeneo will still surrender to the incandescent Emily D’Angelo
August 20, 2021
Gen X Marks the Spot Thirty years ago next month, Nirvana released Nevermind. Music was never the same
Ons Jabeur The young Tunisian tennis pro is gunning for a Grand Slam and paving the way for more of Africa’s rising stars
Opera Pick of the Week Everest, Joby Talbot’s intimate epic, expands its already considerable reach as the world’s first (we think) graphic-novel opera
August 13, 2021
The Music Man Meet Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, a proud Chicaksaw composer with a thing for Shostakovich
August 13, 2021
