The urban kingdom of Washington Heights is an unlikely Eden where the stately European echoes of Beaux-Arts architecture clash with the extroverted expressions of the Latin-American diaspora…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 07:00AMIn 1889 Giacomo Puccini wrote to his publisher about getting the operatic rights to Victorien Sardou’s melodrama “La Tosca,” which the playwright had written for Sarah Bernhardt: “In…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:19PMNew York City Opera was once a radiant and seemingly indispensable part of New York’s cultural life. But ever since its closure, two and a half years ago, the prospect of reviving the comp…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:37AM“A Dynamic Home for Artists and New Music of All Kinds,” the home page says on the Web site for National Sawdust, a cutting-edge venue in Williamsburg that opens, after much anticipatio…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:14PMMusical matters came especially easy to Lorin Maazel, who began as a child prodigy.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00PMI’ve always wanted to meet the great countertenor Russell Oberlin, since we have the same first name (before it was fashionable, mind you) and since he shares his last name with that o…
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