David Frum, an author and columnist for The Atlantic: “Above all, we must learn to live in an America where an overwhelming ...

Mozart is the great test of musicians—of violinists, pianists, singers, and conductors. Mozart is what separates the men from ...

Once, at a gallery show I was visiting, the artist pointed to a painting of two gun-toting soldiers and told me it was the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last night’s Trovatore at the Met started out okay. But it got much better than that. By the end, it was a stirring Trovatore, deserving of many bravos. I am speaking of Il trovatore, by Verdi, at the ...

Teatro alla Scala, Italy’s premier opera house, includes an opera from the country’s pre-Mozart past in its programming each year. This time, the choice fell on L’Orontea by the seventeenth-century ...

“Here I am, back at Carnegie Hall,” said Bernadette Peters. “It only took thirty years.” Well, it took twenty-seven, Google tells me. But there’s no need to be picky. Bernadette put on a very good ...

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, The Fair at Bezons, 1750, Etching, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. “Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through February 4, 2025): ...