Detroit Opera brings 'The Handmaid's Tale' to the stage, offering a timely and emotionally charged operatic experience.

On I puritani, by Bellini, at the Metropolitan Opera. It has been a good season at the Met for “the sweet Sicilian,” as Wagner called Bellini. The company had already staged La sonnambula. (For my ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I Puritani,” directed by Charles Edwards, is “a retro move,” said Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager. Charles Edwards on ...

Why is there such a disconnected between contemporary reformed understanding of Israel and the Puritans? This is what I seek to explain in this article. To begin, it is important to understand that ...

The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson recently advanced a provocative theory, one summarized in the headline of his piece: “The Pilgrims Were English Ethno-Nationalists.” According to Davidson, the ...

It was an unlikely collaboration. When Caroline Polachek DM-ed These New Puritans in 2022, the American super popstar and Charli XCX collaborator just “had a feeling they were writing new music”. She ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Playing at Coachella last month, Charli XCX brought the curtain down on her lengthy “Brat summer” by screening ...

One of the strengths of These New Puritans is how the expressive vulnerability of Jack Barnett’s vocals sit within the battering of twin brother George’s drumming. In this relationship, I’ve always ...

These New Puritans come with a reputation of making Joy Division look like S Club Juniors. An unfair one, but this is what happens when you combine challenging hymnal music with brutally intense ...

Jack and George Barnett are proof positive that progress is a slow process – the Southend twins’ fifth record, ‘Crooked Wing’, is only their second since 2013. Their glacial rate of return becomes ...

Six years is a long time between records, but These New Puritans – Essex-born brothers Jack and George Barnett – have always worked at their own pace, with a steely-eyed disregard for trends. Their ...