Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Not so at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where the opera premiered in 1831. Prior to its welcome new production, ...

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On The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom, by David Woodman.

But on balance I think that the late Australian philosopher David Stove was right: the leading characteristic of the Left it ...

On new productions of Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae and Fauré’s Pénélope, at the Bavarian State Opera.

Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, a mythical tetralogy with an ambition to relate nothing less than the creation and destruction ...

Rusalka’s watery realm, accordingly, is a basement with leaky pipes, where she is kept with other creatures, perhaps her ...

Thomas Mann openly converted from a chauvinistic rejection of all politics in Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (1918) to ...

The opera’s plot, which is based on the assassination in 1792 of King Gustav III of Sweden at, yes, a masked ball, proved ...

September” in the book’s calendar belongs to this period, since it includes the arms of the forty-day tournament celebrated ...