May 23, 2022
New opera, old play
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On Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera.
On Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera.
On a performance of La bohème at the Metropolitan Opera.
On Parisian architecture, the Monuments Men, Bronislava Nijinska, Nabokov & more from the world of culture.
On Jaap van Zweden, Igor Levit, and the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.
Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion’s music critic, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
On a recital in Carnegie Hall by the pianist Yuja Wang.
On an appearance by Elza van den Heever and Vlad Iftinca in Zankel Hall.
On afterlife narratives, Pompeian frescoes, Bohemian composers, Dance Theatre of Harlem & more from the world of culture.
On a performance by the ARTEK ensemble of chamber and vocal music by Dietrich Buxtehude.
On recent performances at Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center.