Exciting summer events at the Metropolitan Opera, NYC
The 2019 summer season at the Met Opera is full of bright events. 2019 Summer Recital Series The Met’s popular concert series in New York City parks in all five...
The 2019 summer season at the Met Opera is full of bright events. 2019 Summer Recital Series The Met’s popular concert series in New York City parks in all five...
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo is one of the most illustrious Spanish Baroque painters. Murillo, whose most famous works include the Soult Immaculate Conception and the Vision of Saint Anthony, is believed...
Victor Hugo was not enamoured with the title of Frederic Shoberl’s English translation of his 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris. For the future “great man” of French literature, the book’s...
Bruce Hornsby could have spent his years gradually winding down from MOR superstardom. He could have kept making albums that sounded a bit like The Way It Is, the lambent,...
When Aaron Sorkin first sat down to write a stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, it didn’t go well. “My first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was terrible,”...
“Her technique is - dazzling, her tone - wonderfully varied, from crystalline purity to powerfully raw, and the energy propelling her playing seems unstoppable.” (The Guardian) The 2018/19 season marks...
Dutch paintings of the 17th century—the Golden Age of Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer—have been a highlight of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection since the Museum’s founding purchase in 1871....
Barbara J. King is professor emerita of anthropology at the College of William and Mary, where she taught for twenty-eight years. She is the author of How Animals Grieve and...
In 1977, André Previn was so famous that he had his own chat show on BBC1. In one episode, wearing an expensive-looking brown suede safari jacket with big collar, and...
The world of art celebrates 156th anniversary of Konstantin Stanislavsky. The influential Russian actor, director and theatre practitioner left a durable mark on the world of performing arts, by co-founding...