Ms. Stemme has sung a variety of roles, but is especially known for ones that require heft and stamina. Three of her roles at ...

The year 2025 is, according to the city of Aix, “the year of Cézanne.” The artist was born in 1839 and died in 1906, so this ...

Suzanna Murawski on ignorance, Van Gogh & plaster.

In the last few days, the New York Philharmonic has been conducted by Iván Fischer, the Hungarian. He is one of the Fabulous ...

Founded in 1931, the NSO is younger than its celebrated peer orchestras, most of which entered the world in Gilded Age ...

Palm Beach Opera takes a more conservative path in its productions. This Figaro, with sets and costumes by Leslie Travers, ...

Library Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.

Last month, the University of Oxford announced in the weekly Gazette a series of proposed “changes to the Conduct of Ceremonies in Congregation, and certain other Ceremonies.” Among these changes are ...

The Supreme Court ruled two years ago, in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, that colleges and universities may not use race as a factor in admissions lest they ...

Few cities can rival Vienna’s list of cultural and artistic luminaries. The thinkers Ludwig Wittgenstein, Carl Menger, Viktor Frankl, Friederich Hayek, and Sigmund Freud were all Viennese. So were the ...