Isaac Sligh on Luigi Cherubini’s “Medea” at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus.

Fifty Years of Dreams” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.

On diplomatic reception rooms, connoisseurs, Emmet Gowin’s photography, Art Deco buildings & more from the world of culture.

On performances of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest. The stages in both productions shared a sense of obstacle and confinement. For ...

On Thomas Hutchinson, the Sun Valley Music Festival, early music, nineteenth-century architecture, Homer’s Odyssey & more ...

Criterion Books will publish The Whole Gray Lake’s a Sky in the winter of 2027. The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that Midge Goldberg is the winner of the twenty-sixth New ...

In late June, New York City Ballet returned to Los Angeles for the first time in twenty years and presented two dance programs at the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. One of the programs ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Yes, it was a concert, not an opera, as in Milan. But at least it featured voices. Palermo’s Teatro Massimo is ...

Though the official day of the United States’ semiquincentennial has come and gone, there are still Revolutionary War achievements to be remembered. In The Spectator World, Patrick Allitt memorializes ...

The third-oldest college in the United States is small and, to borrow a word from the headline of a recent positive article about it in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “weird.” Founded in 1696 as ...

Paris’s Petit Palais makes a point of selecting artists for exhibition who are largely foreign to contemporary France and yet whose art was influenced by the School of Paris of the nineteenth and ...