Opera has always thrived on exaggeration, pushing boundaries and activating imaginations. The FIU Opera Theater’s production of “Dido and Aeneas” is no exception, as undergraduate mezzo-soprano Kali ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Dean is an Australian composer, born in 1961. For about 15 years—1984 to 2000—he played the viola in the Berlin ...

Have you ever been to a wedding and everything went perfectly? The bride was beautiful, the food was delicious, the first dance was nicely done, etc. It’s a lovely evening, but easily forgotten. But!

“Everybody here knows, I was terribly nervous,” Jolie said at the press conference for Maria at the Venice Film Festival. “I spent almost seven months training because when you work with Pablo you can ...

Alyson Cambridge (left), seen in rehearsal, plays the title role in "The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson," at Pittsburgh Opera. On Apple Street in Homewood stands a Victorian mansion that was the ...

Before we begin our tour, we meet in Los Angeles to watch the digital debut of Missy Mazzoli's impassioned opera Breaking the Waves. The opera is based on Lars von Trier's film of the same name. The ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Conductor James Gaffigan and the 88-person orchestra playing the Santa Fe Opera’s Die Walküre have rightly ...

Once she decided earlier this year on a fall play – “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” – Val Chellin knew she needed to find a strong lead for the main character. She turned to someone she’d never ...