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.

Viola players “don’t get no respect,” as the late Rodney Dangerfield would say. They are the butt of endless jokes (sometimes ...

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 ...

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

On Greek athletics, authorial cats, the licensing racket, Cretan painting & more from the world of culture.

Robert Steven Mack is the thirteenth and current Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion. A professional ballet dancer and filmmaker, he has danced with City Ballet of San Diego and Indianapolis ...

Daniel J. Mahoney is Professor Emeritus at Assumption University and a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute. His latest book, The Persistence of the Ideological Lie, will be published by Encounter ...