Jay Nordlinger on a performance of “Carmina Burana” at the Teatro Massimo.

T he elder apostles of George Balanchine often gripe that his ballets, especially when staged by smaller companies, fall ...

David Platzer on the life of Lady Diana Cooper.

At least, that is, until now, with the advent of the Pascal Institute, in the Netherlands, with which St. John’s has formed a ...

Before Abraham Lincoln perfected the language of “four score and seven years ago” in the Gettysburg Address, he phrased a temporal reference to the Fourth of July in a more awkward manner: “How long ...

Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” by the Hungarian National Ballet, Budapest.

On a recital by the pianist Alexandre Kantorow in Carnegie Hall.

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it ...

Over the past twenty years or so, two titans of the Renaissance have been illuminated by capacious, legendary exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The shows “Leonardo da Vinci, Master ...

The first time I heard David Bull’s name, he was being described as “legendary.” It was the 1990s, and my boss at Sotheby’s, the late Charles S. Moffett, was talking about David’s incredible range as ...

On a “stolen” painting, Mark Twain & Erik Satie.