Oct 26, 2023
Verdi in the Holy Land
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On Verdi’s I Lombardi alla prima crociata at Parma’s Festival Verdi.
Topic: “Italy”
Sep 05, 2023
Dreamy art in a sleepy town
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On the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art, Piacenza.
Jul 27, 2023
Lady Macbeth gets her revenge
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On Verdi’s Macbeth at La Scala, starring Anna Netrebko.
Jul 07, 2023
Dante does Dvořák
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On Rusalka at La Scala, Milan.
Notebook June 2023
Roman Romanticism
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On Francis Marion Crawford’s Saracinesca tetralogy.
Reflections June 2022
The improving Bardini
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On art restorers and dealers in Florence.
Features May 2022
The many Donatellos
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On “Donatello: The Renaissance” at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello, Florence.
Features March 2022
Idol temptations on the Adriatic
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On two great twentieth-century poets.
Jan 24, 2022
Books in Bologna
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On “Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.
Art September 2021
Face-to-face with the Medici
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On “The Medici: Portraits & Politics, 1512–1570” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.