The gloomy production is a poor platform for superstar soprano Lise Davidsen and a generally stellar cast.
In Painting over the Growth Chart, Rattelle reminds us that the transcendent power of poetry is to preserve its subject forever.
In his debut performance of the title role, Gábor Bretz is superb in the Hungarian State Opera’s production of Mussorgsky’s enduring classic.
Living a life of mercy means encountering the ‘least of these’ in all of their particularity—and recognizing them in ourselves, too.
The three poets in Gerytades, like many politicians, find themselves on the cusp of success—but their decisions damn them, so they must trundle back home, thinking of ways to spin their failure into victory.
If you had described conditions in today’s United States to the average American at the turn of the 21st century, he would have thought you a madman.
The WNO scores a success, delighting audiences with its freewheeling, Jazz-age New Orleans take on Offenbach’s Songbird.
Angela Meade and Ashley Dixon are stunning in this fiery production by Palm Beach Opera.
Hendrick Cremer claims that the AfD represents a resurgence of Nazi thinking. His argument is unconvincing.
Why has transgender ideology become so pervasive that it exerts a sort of mental terror—obliging people to acquiesce to a powerfully altered version of reality?
This year’s Vienna Philharmonic U.S. tour sees memorable performances of Bruckner’s and Mahler’s Ninth Symphonies.
Rakib Ehsan does not deny the challenges we face, but he demonstrates that the Left’s dark view of Britain is far from warranted.
