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Masked murder | The New Criterion
Few of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas have a history as confusing as Un ballo in maschera does. As a bridge…
Klaus & co.
A couple of years before he died in 2003, Luciano Berio composed a completion of Turandot, the opera…
“A quartet in Katonah,” by Matthew O. Skrod
For the nation’s leading classical ensembles, the summer months promise no great respite, but they…
A man for our times
Well, the zany genius Tom Lehrer is gone now, dead of old age at ninety-seven. Since he did not in…
The Critic’s Notebook | The New Criterion
Nonfiction: The Guide of the Perplexed: Complete in One Volume, by Moses Maimonides, translated and…
A long, fruitful relationship
On the stage of Salzburg’s Great Festival Hall this morning was an organ. I thought of “Chekhov’s…
“A pianist and his Schubert,” by Jay Nordlinger.
The Salzburg Festival has a few regular pianists, who give a recital every year. One of those…
“A stage director’s opera,” by Jay Nordlinger.
In the old days, record companies offered you an opera in a box set. But they also offered you a…
The Critic’s Notebook | The New Criterion
Nonfiction: Champagne: A Global History, Second Edition, by Becky Sue Epstein (Reaktion Books): It’s…
Miscreants in Mantua
Jacques Offenbach’s Les brigands is among the last of his large-scale, three-act operettas with…
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