Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...

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

Singing, playing, and shouting Christmas “Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus ...

On the U.S. semiquincentennial.

Much of what makes Diogenes the Cynic (d. ca. 323 B.C.) such a fascinating but difficult figure to reckon with can be gleaned from the opening anecdote of the most complete surviving biography of the ...

When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...

Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...

The deeper cause of the success, the general wrote, will be the character of the people—the frugality, industry, and thirst ...

On “Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time,” by Dietrich Neumann.