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

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

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

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

David Butterfield on leaving Cambridge for Ralston College.

Bernadette sang Sondheim, the title song of Anyone Can Whistle (I believe). She then slinked off the stage, waving goodbye, ...

Teatro alla Scala, Italy’s premier opera house, includes an opera from the country’s pre-Mozart past in its programming each ...

The key of E-flat major often introduces bold music. As the National Symphony’s music director Gianandrea Noseda observed at this early-season concert, both pieces featured that evening—Beethoven’s ...

Frédéric Chopin died 175 years ago, so it’s not too often that his fans get to hear something new from him. But recently, a curator at the Morgan Library & Museum, while sorting through a collection ...

In the title role—that of the trovatore, or troubadour—was Michael Fabiano, the tenor from New Jersey. He sang with beautiful ardor. In “Di quella pira,” he did not have much of a C. But this was of ...

On October 24, the Friends and Young Friends of The New Criterion gathered at The Players with David Dubal for a special version of his beloved piano evenings, featuring Cecile Licad performing ...

Last month in this space we commented on the wild attacks against Elon Musk, genius loci of (among other things) Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, Starlink, and the social-media company X (formerly known as ...