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A perfect fit
The Opéra Royal de Versailles opened its season last month with a new production of Rossini’s…
The Critic’s Notebook
Art: Soane office, RA Lecture Drawing to illustrate an Egyptian temple: Perspective of the…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Egypt’s Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first…
If Aida known better – The New Criterion
“I may have revealed strategic information,” admits Radamès, the hapless soldier in the Washington…
Aida & the ayatollahs – The New Criterion
For its “new” production of Aida this fall, the Paris Opera imported one from the 2017 Salzburg…
The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors
Art: René Magritte, The Secret Double, 1927, Oil on canvas, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. …
“The first lion king,” by Warren Frye
One passion shared by academics, journalists, and contributors to internet blogs is debunking what…
Detroit delivers
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has been carving out a reputation for itself as the definitive…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “The Louvre theft points to the wider crisis in France”Valeria…
Unsolved mysteries
The mystery cults of classical Greece and Rome remain appropriately mysterious to historians. In…
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