Opera Pick of the Week
From Adolphe Adam, composer of the tragic ballet Giselle, an operatic soap bubble starring a postman with a knockout high D
Miami Vice
Downtown New York’s cool set and crypto bros decamped to Miami for a weekend of parties (and some art, where they could fit it in)
Making Trouble
A searing satire of the Black experience in the largely white New York theater, Trouble in Mind sees the light 66 years after it was written
Leading with the Chin
Free Solo’s Jimmy Chin discusses his latest film, his forthcoming book of photography, and why the Hamptons are the bane of his existence
A Four de Force
The sole performer onstage, actor and director Ralph Fiennes brings T. S. Eliot’s words to life and into the now
And Five, Six, Seven, Eight!
Lovers of Sondheim bolted to this gritty piano bar in Greenwich Village to grieve—and sing!
Opera Pick of the Week
Unseen at the Paris Opera since its premiere in 1936, Georges Enesco’s Œdipe returns in a heaven-sent staging by Wajdi Mouawad
Opera Pick of the Week
Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), Alexander von Zemlinsky’s decadent exploration of the female gaze, in rival productions from the transgressive hot spots of Amsterdam and Berlin
World on a String
Tony Sarg transformed the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with his fantastical designs
The Secret History
An exhibition at the Jewish Museum sheds light on the story of the famed Ephrussi family, told by Edmund de Waal in The Hare with Amber Eyes
Opera Pick of the Week
From San Francisco, an intriguing new take on Così fan tutte, Mozart’s politically scandalous, musically sublime comedy of deception
Opera Pick of the Week
With the recital album Baritenor, the singer-scholar Michael Spyres mines music history for sheer delight
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