Suzanna Murawski on Simone Weil, an art heist & Picasso in Cleveland.

The Metropolitan Opera has gone dark for a month or so, but its orchestra is free to play—as it did last night in Carnegie Hall. The program was all-Brahms. It is good to be able to see these players ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...

This winter, the playwright Matthew Gasda, best known for his observations of New York’s disaffected Zoomer youth, has staged ...

Paul du Quenoy on a concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington.

The choir sang Eben’s Prague Te Deum 1989. It premiered in April 1990, on the eve of a visit by Pope John Paul II. From the ...

Rosa Feola, the Italian soprano, does her part in advocating Martucci. (She is a favorite singer of Muti, by the way.) She ...

Tennyson wrote a famous poem for New Year’s Day, or any day. Jonathan Dove, a contemporary English composer, set it to music. This episode begins with that piece. There is also a song from the ...

When the ship’s crew cut into Crook Jaw, they found neither Devil nor mermaid inside, just heaps of yellow seaweed. As it ...

Jeremy Black on “The Price of Victory,” by N. A. M. Rodger.

Paul Dean on “Shakespeare’s Tragic Art,” by Rhodri Lewis.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael’s captivating works produce a grand scale of awe and occasion that ...