It’s December, and everyone seems to be either deeply festive or deeply congested. The air smells like pine trees … and cold medicine. Calendars and sinuses are equally clogged, energy is low, and ...

As the houselights dim at the Metropolitan Opera, the Julie Taymor–directed The Magic Flute transports viewers into a buoyant and kaleidoscopic fairy-tale dreamworld. This abridged, English-language ...

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