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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, ...

Several months ago I was practicing a piece titled “David Dubal: In Flight,” a musical portrait that Virgil Thomson composed of me many years ago. Since the late 1920s, Thomson had been enthralled ...