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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

Big Picture

Doom and Bloom

Opera Pick of the Week

What’s better, sex or salvation? Tannhäuser, Wagner’s schizophrenic singer of courtly love songs, simply cannot decide

Hidden Gems

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

Back to Blaxploitation

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

So Much More than a Shop

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

Elizabeth Neel

With a new show at Pilar Corrias, in London, Alice Neel’s granddaughter forges a path of her own

Françoise Gilot Is So Over Picasso

After she left him, Picasso tried to get Françoise Gilot blacklisted. Today, Gilot, who turns 100 this fall, is breaking auction records

Mad for Majolica

Little Gold Men, Big White Guilt

L.A.’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has little to say about movie history—but speaks volumes about Hollywood and our times