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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

From the Outside In

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

Life on the Orient Express

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

Ready-to-Wear

Burn After Listening

A discreet, ultra-cool music festival in Garbicz, Poland, could blow Burning Man out of the water

Dan White

Hollywood’s favorite magician reappears on … Zoom?

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

Opera Pick of the Week

From the Boston Lyric Opera, a never-before-released video of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, starring American soprano Deborah Voigt

The Glass Menagerie

From Czech sea creatures to Venetian vessels to contemporary sculptures, exhibitions across the world take glass art in delightfully different directions

A Woman Apart

Splendors in the Grass

Opera Pick of the Week

Streaming one night only, a new production of Tristan und Isolde from Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper with dream cast Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros

The Kids Were Alright

A new documentary explores the gritty intersection of skateboarding and hip-hop in 90s New York

The Power of the Pen

Fancy Footwork

Opera Pick of the Week

From Boston Lyric Opera in a bicoastal partnership with Long Beach Opera, the game-changing miniseries Desert In

Opera Pick of the Week

In Lo Schiavo, Verdi’s forgotten Brazilian disciple tackles colonialism, South American style