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Grim Paris Salome Underserves the Work
The gloomy production is a poor platform for superstar soprano Lise Davidsen and a generally stellar cast.
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?
Scharl’s poetry reminds us of the vibrancy and relevance of our cultural tradition.
In Bound by Truth, Kwasniewski offers guidance on what Catholics ought to do when Church leaders depart from the common good.
In Bad Therapy, Abigail Shrier shows that far from making children healthier, therapy often causes the problems it exists to solve.
Palm Beach’s outgoing director, David Walker, will be sorely missed, but his legacy will live on, capped by this outstanding production of Hoffman set in the roaring ’20s.
The U Rayis not perfect, but it’s bursting with adventure that has inspired one of the greatest comic writers of our time.
With such a fine musical performance, it is regrettable that the subway station is the production’s most memorable image.
The ambition of Jones’ The Two Cities is to use the Augustinian framework to demonstrate an alternative to the misguided secular approach to history.
Gracchus and its conclusion represent a musical offering on the altar of our great dramatic tradition.
The Italian writer argued that when society dismisses or disparages beauty, it cuts itself off from reality itself.
The Syriac World introduces Western readers to the ancient riches of the Syriac Christian heritage.
In Under the Cloud, Yannis Varoufakis argues that the global economy is post-capitalist because it relies on rent extraction.
In Los Contemplativos, d’Ors writes with a quiet enthusiasm for the intense sobriety of a life devoted to the fullness of each moment.