Childhood Illuminated” at the Petit Palais.

M.P. Kennedy on a performance by Gloria Cheng at the Wende Museum.

Evidently, that is what “free speech” means to him. It is the freedom to choose his own reality and to have it ratified as ...

A Salzburg audience is a very disciplined one. In the middle of a Strauss set was “Cäcilie.” How you can refrain from ...

Van Gogh once wrote that it was Millet rather than Manet who most expressed the essential nature of modern painting. Millet’s ...

Paul du Quenoy on Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin,’ at the Bayreuth Festival ...

Gary Saul Morson on the Soviet politicization of science.

Currently, Muslims account for about 6.5 percent of Britain’s population. That may seem like a small number. But there are ...

As Liza Libes, a veteran of Literature Humanities, recently wrote, more in sorrow than in anger, “Ovid was sent on a ...

Simon Heffer on a pair of new books about London’s clubs.

Paul du Quenoy on a new production of Wagner’s "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," at the Bayreuth Festival.

He was born in Moscow in 1932; he died in Munich, his adopted home. His wife, who preceded him in death, was Maya Plisetskaya ...