On Dino Buzatti, George Bellows, Lillie P. Bliss, Mahler’s Ninth, John Soane & more from the world of culture.

It will go, as they all do. The Aida of Sonja Frisell, which premiered in 1988, ran for about 250 performances. It has been ...

From her opening cries of “Mario!” (three of them), Radvanovsky was sovereign. She was una vera Tosca, a true Tosca. Italian, ...

Last night, the New York Philharmonic was conducted by Kevin John Edusei, a German born in 1976. He cuts a dashing figure ...

How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer,” by Darren Freebury-Jones.

Ted” Champlin had died, the thought that went through my head immediately was that they don’t make ’em like that anymore. Or ...

On recent reissues of The Lifeline & Pictures on the Wall by Hugo Charteris.

George Loomis on a production of Verdi’s “La forza del destino” at La Scala.

Yesterday, Igor Levit returned to Carnegie Hall, as he does frequently—as all great musicians should, I think. Carnegie Hall should present the best, regularly. But this does not always work out. For ...

If that sounds more or less like orthodox Abstract Expressionism to you, let it be noted how far Zutrau had to go to escape ...