Auckland has become the first major city to ring in 2024, with thousands cheering a fireworks display sprouting from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower, and a downtown light show. …
Lucky holders of 20-euro tickets with the number 88008 will be celebrating Friday. They have each won 400,000 euros ($585,000 Cdn), or some 325,000 euros after tax, in the top …
Liv Redpath and Joshua Hopkins in ‘Christmas Oratorio’. Photo: Stephanie Berger In December, concert halls and churches ring with baroque music, especially Handel’s. But this year along with the composer’s …
A lot of us now spend much of our work and leisure time peering at the web through a browser—and for that time to be spent as productively as possible, …
Moving from a bacchanalian orgy to a singing competition turned slut shaming session to sexless death and Christian repentance, Tannhäuser advances slowly toward its destination. It solidifies German national myth …
Maria Callas was born in Upper Manhattan one hundred years ago this Saturday, December 2. Of her many operatic roles, the iconic Greek-American soprano was particularly identified with Medea. On …
The Metropolitan Opera’s current production of Daniel Catán and Marcela Feuntes-Berain’s Florencia en el Amazonas is the first opera in Spanish to appear on the Met stage in over a …
The Shanghai International Arts Festival, first held in 1999, featured 72 different productions this year – 12 of them international premieres – that between them staged around 1,000 shows that …
More than thirty-six years after its world premiere at New York City Opera, X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X finally made the short trip across Lincoln Center Plaza …
The 2024 Grammy nominations were announced Friday morning, with SZA, Phoebe Bridgers and the Barbie movie soundtrack leading the female-dominated pack. Across the major categories, SZA dominated with nine nominations. She was recognized alongside other solo …