The Salzburg Festival is staging Julius Caesar, with Emmanuelle Haïm in the pit. She leads Le Concert d’Astrée, the group she founded in 2000. The cast is an international one, loaded with ...

George Loomis on “Les brigands,” performed by the Paris Opera.

Viola players “don’t get no respect,” as the late Rodney Dangerfield would say. They are the butt of endless jokes (sometimes ...

Grace Hartigan began her art career free of the past. She had no technical training, education in art history, or particular ...

Jay Nordlinger n Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda” at the Salzburg Festival.

On Greek athletics, authorial cats, the licensing racket, Cretan painting & more from the world of culture. Emmanuel Tzanes, Christ the Great High Priest, ca. 1670, Tempera and gold on panel, Museo ...

In North America, the Atlanta Opera will conclude its ongoing Ring cycle next spring, while the Metropolitan Opera has ...

And in “The Author’s Apology” to Mrs. Warren’s Profession, which was first performed, amid scandal, in 1902, nearly a decade ...

Bennett Tucker on “Pinchas Litvinovsky: You Must Choose Life—That is Art,” at Beit Avi Chai, Jerusalem.