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.

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

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

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

To understand a painting, you start by looking. That is enough. But, of course, there are different contexts in which to consider it. There is the history of all painted images, the local artistic ...

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

Few American poems are so recognizable to the public as Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” (Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is the other top contender.) And Poe’s dark short stories are nearly as well-known: ...