The Salzburg Festival is staging Julius Caesar, with Emmanuelle Haïm in the pit. She leads Le Concert d’Astrée, the group she founded in 2000. The cast is an international one, loaded with ...

George Loomis on “Les brigands,” performed by the Paris Opera.

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In North America, the Atlanta Opera will conclude its ongoing Ring cycle next spring, while the Metropolitan Opera has ...

On Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at the Salzburg Festival.

Grace Hartigan began her art career free of the past. She had no technical training, education in art history, or particular ...

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Lady Pamela Berry (1914–82), also known as Lady Hartwell after her husband, Michael Berry, the owner of The Daily Telegraph ...

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M. P. Kennedy on the New Hollywood String Quartet with Alban Gerhardt, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, and Olga Zado.

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