Verdi’s masterpiece of 1853, La traviata. She fashioned her production in 2016. It was staged last Wednesday night at the ...
Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” by the Hungarian National Ballet, Budapest.
It is not an exaggeration to say that we live today in the Age of Friedman, an era shaped by his ideas about the importance ...
On the Aspen Music Festival, American chamber music, John Ashbery, the Fraunces Tavern Museum & more from the world of culture. R. B. Kitaj, Untitled (Portrait of John Ashbery), 1970, Charcoal and ...
Paris’s Petit Palais makes a point of selecting artists for exhibition who are largely foreign to contemporary France and yet whose art was influenced by the School of Paris of the nineteenth and ...
On Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Met.
It was improbable, to say the least, that the David Gruen born as a Jew in 1886 in the back-of-beyond Polish-Russian township of Plonsk should have become David Ben-Gurion, a world-historical figure.
No sport—not even boxing or baseball or tennis—has inspired a literature as impressive as cricket has, and this may be in part because the earliest competitive years of cricket were dominated by ...
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 22, 2026, honoring Harvey Mansfield with the thirteenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...