The National Gallery defies the historical relativism for which British galleries have become infamous.

In Hannah’s Children, Catherine Pakaluk argues that tinkering and technocracy won’t save the West from its demographic decline.

Jules Massenet’s opera invites dreamy fantasies of a lost and better world.

A key conclusion of Gaines’ new book is that much of the transgender movement is enabled by collective cowardice.

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.