George Loomis on “Un ballo in maschera,” at the Paris Opera.

The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind,” by Michael Scott.

Mahler’s Third began with a blatty onset in the horns—but, as they continued, those horns were arresting. Part I as a whole ...

Warren Frye on “The Saga of the Earls of Orkney,” edited and translated by Judith Jesch.

Music has long depended on its benefactors, including commissioners. Think of the three string quartets that make up Beethoven’s Op. 59. They’re known as the “Razumovsky Quartets,” because Count ...

A recital by Juan Diego Flórez, the Peruvian tenor, follows a pattern. With Vincenzo Scalera at the piano, the program begins with songs by bel canto composers—Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini. It has some ...

Among the most talked-about male ballet dancers of the moment is Giorgi Potskhishvili, the Georgian principal of the Dutch National Ballet and frequent star of dance galas worldwide. The performer has ...

On Old Master drawings, Caravaggio, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Art Deco & more from the world of culture.

On a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra, at the Trump Kennedy Center. Despite the controversy, Noseda’s customary brilliance was on display in January, when he returned to the podium after the ...

In her later years, the sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) was one of the most famous artists of the time, appearing on the covers of Look and The New York Times Magazine. Her extravagant, hieratic ...