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
Paging Picasso!
A new book traces the painter’s life—Paris, women, wars, and all
Isaac Benigson
The British artist’s colorful work made it to London’s Royal Academy of Arts before he graduated from high school
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
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
Joan of Art
Joan Mitchell, who revolutionized postwar American art alongside “Ninth Street women” Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning, finally gets her due
Kate Moennig
The actress’s pandemic podcast with The L Word co-star Leisha Hailey has become the new gay go-to
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
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
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
The Music Man
Meet Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, a proud Chicaksaw composer with a thing for Shostakovich
Dan White
Hollywood’s favorite magician reappears on … Zoom?
Burn After Listening
A discreet, ultra-cool music festival in Garbicz, Poland, could blow Burning Man out of the water
And All That Jazz
Look back at Bert Stern’s classic film, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, which next week comes out in a sparkly new restoration
