At the end of the act, the audience let out an animal roar. You sometimes hear that in an opera house. And when you do, it’s thrilling. When Nézet-Séguin returned for Act II, he received a rapturous ...
Jay Nordlinger on a concert of the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, with Vilde Frang, violin soloist ...
Robert Steven Mack on a performance of a selection of Balanchine’s work by San Francisco Ballet.
Prince and Patron,” at the Château of Maisons, in Maisons-Laffitte, France.
On “The Day is Gone: 100 Years of New Objectivity,” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
On a performance of La traviata, at the Royal Opera House.
Today, March 4, is National Grammar Day: an occasion, the NGD website tells us, to “celebrate good grammar in both our written and spoken communication.” Since I am a linguist and get my quotidian ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Once derided as unfit for opera because it offered no obvious romance, Boris Godunov defied expectations to ...
From the emergence of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution to the controversial current government, Hungary has, for more than a century, played an ...
Jay Nordlinger on a concert of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with Joshua Bell, “leader” and violin soloist.
If we wish to understand our world, we would do well to initiate our studies by reading and rereading the Athenian’s account of his own world and of the upheavals it underwent in the course of his ...
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