Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Verdi’s work is far more profound than the program’s gloss, which seems to reach for contemporary relevance. As ...

2 Reviews/Photos: First Look at Wagner's TRISTAN UND ISOLDE at the Metropolitan Opera 3 Review: Davidsen, an ISOLDE for the Ages, Alongside Spyres' Splendid TRISTAN in Wagner at the Met ...

The beginning of Act 1 sees the airport in the very early hours of the morning, capturing the dreamy, ethereal stillness of a world on the brink of awakening. Soprano Jennifer France, as the God-like ...

Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created more than 30,000 artworks during an extraordinary nine-decade career. One image in particular from two centuries ago - the picture The Great Wave off ...

*28-year-old Chicago janitor Keanon Kyles has scored the lead role in the Scottish stage production of Puccini’s opera La Bohème. He is set to perform for nine days at the Edinburgh International ...

Kids at four Moray primary schools have had the chance to help tell the tale of a 14th century Chinese explorer. Scottish ...

Rising accommodation costs and delays in buying tickets continue to add pressure to Scotland’s cultural sector. Scottish Opera has renewed calls for multi-year funding and for a greater share of ...

A special event is taking place at the Scottish Parliament to honour ‘the maestro frae Motherwell’, Sir Alexander Gibson. Next week, February 11 marks the 100th anniversary of his birth and Scottish ...

Scottish Opera’s much-loved, annual Primary Schools Tour is coming to Lanarkshire with The Dragon of the Western Sea. Running through the spring and summer terms, it visits schools all over Scotland ...

Those oranges look charming at first, tended and cherished by scuttling servants, but gradually serve to encapsulate the claustrophobic, artifical world that Fehr has created for the opera, one ...

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