The Salzburg Festival is staging Julius Caesar, with Emmanuelle Haïm in the pit. She leads Le Concert d’Astrée, the group she ...

George Loomis on “Les brigands,” performed by the Paris Opera.

Also on the stage was the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and they would be conducted by Riccardo Muti, with whom they have had a relationship for almost fifty-five years. The first work on the program ...

Jay Nordlinger n Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda” at the Salzburg Festival.

Grace Hartigan began her art career free of the past. She had no technical training, education in art history, or particular ...

Jay Nordlinger on a recital by Arcadi Volodos.New to The New Criterion? Become a subscriber to receive ten print issues and gain immediate access to our online archive spanning more than four decades ...

Viola players “don’t get no respect,” as the late Rodney Dangerfield would say. They are the butt of endless jokes (sometimes told by themselves). But Gustav Mahler certainly respected them. He has ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Nothing could be further from what we now think of as the raison d’être or the appearance of the present-day art ...