Mann, Uninterrupted
Aimee Mann, who provided the songs for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia and was one of the Big Lebowski nihilists, has a new album
Opera Pick of the Week
From Brussels, The Time of Our Singing, an operatic mixed-race American family saga, speaks to our historical moment with an eloquence that transcends it
Opera Pick of the Week
Love hurts in Jenůfa, Leoš Janáček’s tragedy from the hinterlands of Moravia, brought to thrilling life at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London
Opera Pick of the Week
What’s better, sex or salvation? Tannhäuser, Wagner’s schizophrenic singer of courtly love songs, simply cannot decide
We’ll Always Have Fabio
How does a certain bronzed male model with free-flowing golden hair stay relevant? By remaining every bit himself … and sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber
Chic Korea
Squid Game, Parasite, BTS—there’s a “K-” revolution afoot, and for once that prefix isn’t followed by “ardashian”
Opera Pick of the Week
If you liked The Bride of Frankenstein, you’ll love Charles Gounod’s Gothic thriller La Nonne Sanglante
Cosmic Yuri
A new biography details the life of Yuri Soloviev, the best ballet dancer you’ve never heard of
No Time to Di
The filmed Broadway show Diana: The Musical is now streaming on Netflix and it’s so bad … it’s worse than Cats
Honor Titus
Rather than go to art school, the musician turned painter apprenticed with his idols. Now he’s Frieze’s brightest star
A Classicist at Heart
Whatever it might mean for him to “play the race card,” the tenor Russell Thomas isn’t having any
La Dolce Marina
A documentary on the Italian film producer Marina Cicogna, who worked with everyone from Sergio Leone to Franco Zeffirelli, premieres in Rome
Opera Pick of the Week
From San Francisco Opera, a bold new reading of Beethoven’s soul-stirring political thriller Fidelio
Inside the Buena Vista Social Club
Twenty-five years after producing the album that became a global sensation, Ry Cooder reveals how fame’s “double-edged sword” affected the group
Opera Pick of the Week
Double déjà vu all over again: Il Trovatore, Verdi’s warhorse in excelsis, live from Los Angeles, with dueling heroes and two modern-day knights
A Spy Like No Other
A new film tells the unlikely story of Noor Inayat Khan, a young Indian pacifist turned Allied spy
In Her Own Time
Bob Dylan said Karen Dalton had “a voice like Billie Holiday.” A new film looks at the enigmatic singer’s enormous influence
