Paul du Quenoy on the Bayreuth Festival’s premiere production of Wagner’s ”Rienzi.” ...

George Loomis on a performance of “Le siège de Corinthe” at the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro.

We wonder if the verb “desecrate” is about to make a comeback. Probably not. The word means “to abuse the sacredness of; to profane.” But those actions require both the acknowledgment that some things ...

In Henry IV, Part 2, Falstaff famously remarked, “I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.” We suspect this observation could be adapted to apply to President Trump. You ...

Turner, conversely, invokes an older association with sacrifice, portraying a dead flock of sheep at the foot of the megaliths, with one of the stones catching a bolt of lightning from on high. From ...

Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” by Richard Strauss, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

“Katherine Taylor: Transformed, New Sculptures and Drawings” at Skoto Gallery (through October 24): The conversation between sculptural form and surface is one that Katherine Taylor injects with a ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London on June 25, 2026. Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate ...

On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

On recent performances at the Salzburg Festival. Volodos, the Soviet-born pianist, does not play a late Schubert sonata every year, but almost. Does it make any sense to refer to “late Schubert,” ...

Lee Harris’s new book Lincoln, Roosevelt, Trump is an interesting study that makes many good points and bucks contemporary “learned” opinion in doing justice to President Donald Trump. But it ...

Few buildings differ so much in effect between exterior and interior as the new Tang Wing for American Democracy. From the outside, this extension to the New-York Historical Society that opened last ...