It's no longer news that live music – and not just classical – has been imperiled as much as most other human enterprises by COVID-19. Back in the day, productions closed, but now cancellations are of ...

The Palace of Versailles has always been about artifice. Nothing is quite true, its spectacle invented and reinvented for its age. Ironically, in our days of access and equality, it is probably far ...

Ovid's tale of Acis and Galatea is familiar to opera lovers in the sturdy, tuneful and mostly lighthearted version created by George Frideric Handel. But another great musician was also inspired by ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The opera house in the palace is as artificial as any of Louis’s propaganda. It was added shortly before the revolution, not for ...