In David Geffen Hall, Miah Persson came out to sing Strauss’s Four Last Songs. She is a veteran Swedish soprano. She knows ...

David Frum, an author and columnist for The Atlantic: “Above all, we must learn to live in an America where an overwhelming ...

Mozart is the great test of musicians—of violinists, pianists, singers, and conductors. Mozart is what separates the men from ...

Once, at a gallery show I was visiting, the artist pointed to a painting of two gun-toting soldiers and told me it was the ...

George Loomis on “Macbeth” at the Parma Festival Verdi.

The Wagner concert was titled “Gods and Mortals,” an oddity since Wagner’s gods perish and are thus quite mortal. The program ...

Robert Frank in Dialogue” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

James Little, Mr. Domino, 2024, Oil & wax on linen, Petzel, New York. “James Little: Affirmed/Actions” at Petzel, New York ...

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