Nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts,” Beethoven wrote his publisher to describe the scene, which did nothing to help his incipient hearing loss. He dedicated the concerto not to ...

Teatro alla Scala, Italy’s premier opera house, includes an opera from the country’s pre-Mozart past in its programming each ...

In the title role—that of the trovatore, or troubadour—was Michael Fabiano, the tenor from New Jersey. He sang with beautiful ...

Bernadette sang Sondheim, the title song of Anyone Can Whistle (I believe). She then slinked off the stage, waving goodbye, ...

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, The Fair at Bezons, 1750, Etching, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. “Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through February 4, 2025): ...

The photographer concentrates almost exclusively on her family and friends, a circle that she says prides itself on maintaining tradition and ritual from one generation to the next. Rather than ...

Last month in this space we commented on the wild attacks against Elon Musk, genius loci of (among other things) Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, Starlink, and the social-media company X (formerly known as ...