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

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

Max Sligh on “Maurice Ravel,” by Emily Kilpatrick.

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

George Loomis on the new "Norma" at La Scala.

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

Our trip started in Vienna, where we visited the Judenplatz and Judengasse, names for vanished people from a vanished world.

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ...

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