The Met had assembled a very capable cast, too. In the title role was Michael Sumuel, a bass-baritone from Texas. He has a ...

M. P. Kennedy on a program of early music performed by Musica Angelica.

Mozart’s overture was spirited but loose—a little sloppy. The rest of the opera was spirited too, and seldom sloppy. In ...

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

Andsnes started with Debussy, however. He likes Debussy, and he likes playing Debussy at encore time. He is known to do ...

At the other end of the age spectrum, doge also reported that the sba issued more than 3,000 loans totaling $333 million to ...

“Gone is the age of satire,” the speaker says, but this very poem, worthy of Swift, demonstrates that satire is, if dangerous ...

M. P. Kennedy on a performance of Heinrich Biber’s “Rosary Sonatas” at Pomona College.

Often, concerts begin with an overture (a natural choice). Last night’s ended with one: the Leonore Overture No. 3, one of ...

JP “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York (through August 10): In the mid-seventeenth ...

Recent stories of note: “Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation” J. Cabelle Ahn, The Art Newspaper ...

It is not a “big” or “important” work, thank God: plot and meaning are compact like a kernel; characters are realised to the ...