On Richard Strauss’s Salome, directed by Lydia Steier, at the Opéra Bastille.
The next Chopin piece was the Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49. I felt like I was seeing an old friend. When I was coming of ...
It may yet be June, with six months left to go in 2024, but it is all but assured that America Last will stand the test of ...
Last year, Minkov and Hannes Kerber published a welcome volume of Strauss’s scattered writings on a key Platonic dialogue: ...
At the cocktail party held upon the publication of Edmund White’s short biography of Proust, Fran Lebowitz congratulated ...
On Wagner’s Siegfried & Götterdämmerung, directed by Andreas Homoki.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.
On Friday night, Seong-jin Cho was all business, as usual—sitting right down to his first piece, Haydn’s Sonata in E minor, ...
On Hell, I Love Everybody by James Tate, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain by Kazuo Ishiguro, All Souls by Saskia ...
So they explored direct light and, in particular, summer light, chasing the sun into the countryside with their trunks of ...
When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it ...
On the author’s sojourn south of the border.