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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

On Greek athletics, authorial cats, the licensing racket, Cretan painting & more from the world of culture.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Nothing could be further from what we now think of as the raison d’être or the appearance of the present-day art ...

George Loomis writes about classical music for MusicalAmerica.com, Opera magazine, and the Financial Times.

Suzanna Murawski was the twelfth Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion. She recently graduated from the University of Chicago, where she received a B.A. from the Fundamentals program and an M.A.