Matthew Gurewitsch
A Legend in the Making
An interview with the Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo about his timeless, timely new opera Book of Mountains & Seas
Mortality and Mercy in Vienna
As Shakespeare’s “duke of dark corners” in Measure for Measure, Mark Rylance finds real life full of shocking surprises
Roll Over, Walt Disney!
Beethoven’s animated Creatures of Prometheus from the Philharmonia makes Fantasia look like, well, Fantasia
The Queen’s Gambit
Immersive midsummer madness from the Bridge Theatre, London
Laugh, Clown, Laugh!
Billy Bigelow meets Prince Charming in Jonas Kaufmann’s scorching Pagliacci
Nuclear Winter of the Soul
Ruth Wilson plays Ibsen’s anti-heroine in Ivo van Hove’s fire-and-ice Hedda Gabler
Smoking Gun at the Ballets Russes
Did the young George Balanchine steal from a certain senior colleague?
When the Cat’s Away …
The mice run wild in Ben Jonson’s knockabout sitcom The Alchemist
Pop Royalty
Little-known paintings by Dame Vera Lynn, “the Forces’ Sweetheart,” whose songs buoyed morale during World War II, go on display in her hometown
One Maestro, One Diva, No Elephants
Riccardo Muti and Anna Netrebko put a Salzburg Aida over the top
What Color is Your Parachute?
As Mark Rothko in the award-winning Red, Alfred Molina tackles the big questions
I Do! I Do!
Love finds a way in The Bartered Bride, starring Teresa Stratas
Born to Sing Verdi
Hawaiian star baritone Quinn Kelsey anchors the Met’s new Rigoletto
Theater Pick of the Week
From Shakespeare’s Globe, in London, an Elizabethan Twelfth Night for the ages
Opera Pick of the Week
The world-premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s evergreen Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors resurfaces
Opera Pick of the Week
Tesla sings! Les Éclairs at the Opéra Comique, in Paris, takes liberties with the biography of the Serbian visionary, to electric effect
