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.

Anne Boleyn’s reputation was tarnished when she was beheaded and her daughter Elizabeth I was deemed “illegitimate.” Henry VIII, perhaps embarrassed by his second failed marriage (it was not to be his ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ten years ago, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary declared “surreal” its word of the year. There were many reasons for its popularity that year. In the century since the 1924 publication of André Breton’s ...

On performances of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest. The stages in both productions shared a sense of obstacle and confinement. For ...

On Francisco de Zurbarán, Richard Strauss, urban photography, Madison Square Park & more from the world of culture.

On the valorization of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964). Insight into the case is provided by Carson Holloway, a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska, in his new book No ...