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In North America, the Atlanta Opera will conclude its ongoing Ring cycle next spring, while the Metropolitan Opera has ...
And in “The Author’s Apology” to Mrs. Warren’s Profession, which was first performed, amid scandal, in 1902, nearly a decade ...
Lady Pamela Berry (1914–82), also known as Lady Hartwell after her husband, Michael Berry, the owner of The Daily Telegraph ...
Arnold Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht ( Transfigured Night) has everything one could wish for in a work of fin de ...
Suzanna Murawski on “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York.
Paul du Quenoy on a revival of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Vienna State Opera, starring Anna Netrebko.
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Jacobitism has been written about as much by the historians as it has by the poets, and the Scottish historian Allan I. MacInnes is hardly unaware of the challenge he is setting himself in making a ...
Robert Steven Mack on a Prometheus statue, Henry James & Hannah Arendt.
In a bit of self-proclaimed cultural diplomacy, the Bayeux Tapestry will be lent to the British Museum by France. The tapestry measures 230 feet long and depicts, in fifty-eight scenes, the Norman ...