Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” at La Scala.

One late evening in December, 1985, I heard a radio talk-show host announce “a great loss: Robert Graves is dead.” It came as ...

Those of us who mark the music have a duty to share it with younger generations and take every opportunity to expose children ...

Inger Kuin’s biography, despite its occasional pandering to twenty-first-century sensibilities, is an excellent place to ...

The Rautavaara work was Cantus Arcticus, written for the Arctic University of Oulu. It is also known as the “Concerto for ...

Like many fellow aspiring musicians, he studied in the French capital and discussed music theory at such a high level with ...

On “The Art of Transmitting: The Antoine Béal Collection” and “The Marcille Chardin Family” at the Orléans Fine Arts Museum.

On Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond, by Piero Boitani.

The New Criterion is proud to announce its Thirteenth Edmund Burke Award Gala in honor of Harvey Mansfield Wednesday, April 226.30 p.m. New York To purchase ...

In this week’s episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith welcomes author and cultural critic Roger Kimball for a powerful discussion on the endu ...