Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” by Richard Strauss, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Now, neither classics nor philology is what it used to be. And the combination—classical philology—is in evident trouble. The ...

On a new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre, at the Bavarian State Opera.

The Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho is part of a constellation of prominent festivals that dot the Rocky Mountains’ ski towns each summer. I dropped in on the forty-second season to hear a ...

I met the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho more than twenty years ago when he came to the United States in what seemed like his transition into intellectual and political networks north of the ...

On a new production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Zürich Opera House. The director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson hails from Iceland but has done most of his work in Germany. Wagnerians notably encountered ...

You’ve heard of the gardens of Versailles, but what about those of Méréville? For Apollo, Gabriel Wick takes a look at the history of the eighteenth-century garden designed in 1785 for Jean-Joseph, ...

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On Federico García Lorca, the Aso O. Tavitian Collection, Franz Liszt and Elliott Carter, Grand Central Terminal & more from the world of culture. Jan Brueghel the Elder, Landscapes with Figures on a ...

When a lady took her seat in the Great Festival Hall at the Salzburg Festival on Sunday night, she said, “This is a dream come true.” She had come from about 10,000 miles away—Tasmania. She, along ...

“I want to be alone,” said Greta Garbo. Martha Argerich is the opposite. The legendary pianist is seldom to be heard in solo recital these days. She prefers to play with others—in chamber music and ...