On Dino Buzatti, George Bellows, Lillie P. Bliss, Mahler’s Ninth, John Soane & more from the world of culture.

How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer,” by Darren Freebury-Jones.

It will go, as they all do. The Aida of Sonja Frisell, which premiered in 1988, ran for about 250 performances. It has been ...

From her opening cries of “Mario!” (three of them), Radvanovsky was sovereign. She was una vera Tosca, a true Tosca. Italian, ...

Last night, the New York Philharmonic was conducted by Kevin John Edusei, a German born in 1976. He cuts a dashing figure ...

On recent reissues of The Lifeline & Pictures on the Wall by Hugo Charteris.

Read “Virgil Thomson at the Chelsea” by David Dubal.

George Loomis on a production of Verdi’s “La forza del destino” at La Scala.