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
Hey, Genius
Cécile McLorin Salvant sings art songs for the new 20s
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
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
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
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
London’s 34th Billy Elliot
Caught live at the Victoria Palace Theatre in 2014, Elliott Hanna makes a legendary part his own
Voice of a Generation
A one-woman spoken-word odyssey of Kurt Cobain’s life has captured the attention of critics, and Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Super Star Power
More than half a century after Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol hooked up, their mystique endures. Now Edie’s sister Alice is making sense of it all
