After the overture came a song-cycle, and, this being an all-Berlioz concert, you know which one: Les Nuits d’été. The ...
The book begins with Rowe’s visit to a fête, which revives happy memories of his youth. He stops by gift booths, plays ...
In a year of much discussion of the Man of Twists and Turns, it was fitting that the Orchestra of the Greek National Opera ...
In a Medea, you need a Medea, for sure. Few title roles are as crucial. Still, there is no one more important in this opera than the conductor. He (or she) determines the character of a performance: ...
Watch Lionel Shriver deliver the Eighth Annual Circle Lecture, “What do progressives really want?” A version of the remarks appear in the November 2026 issue of The New Criterion.
Photo of the design room of Tiffany Studios from an advertising pamphlet. Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art. The pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Photo: New York Philharmonic. “Thibaudet Performs Liszt,” ...
When did World War I begin? In his new book The Blood-Dimmed Tide: Central Europe’s Long Great War, 1905–1921, Jesse Kauffman, a history professor at Eastern Michigan University, provides a novel ...
I was recently reading, with much appreciation, the thoughts of my favorite Democrat on the things his party could do to make it more popular with—maybe even electable in—middle America. Patriotic ...
The Czech novelist Milan Kundera was in his late thirties when he published his first novel, The Joke, in Prague in 1967. The book traces the fortunes and amours of a young student, Ludvik, after his ...
On The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro. The one trait shared by everyone who seeks the modern U.S. presidency is a sociopathic indifference to normal human behaviors ...
On Riccardo Muti and the fate of the Villa Verdi.
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