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‘Heisenberg’ at Ensemble Theatre Is Billed as a “Love Story,” But Delivers a Disturbing Tale of Manipulation ...
Sonya Yoncheva discusses her turn as Lisa in “The Queen of Spades” at the Metropolitan Opera, her summer concerts, her ...
Austria’s JJ returned home to a hero’s welcome after winning the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest with his powerful track “Wasted ...
Sara Holdren’s new production for Heartbeat Opera takes its lead from Bulgakov’s Faustian novel “The Master and Margarita.” ...
The 69th Eurovision Song Contest's Grand Final is almost here. On Saturday evening, crowds at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland will get to see 26 acts perform in this year's final. In 2024, ...
Taylor Swift left empty-handed as some of the biggest names in music were recognized for their achievements over the past ...
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The soprano commands the stage in a performance as haunting as it is stunning. Photo: Lynn Lane, courtesy of the Houston Grand Opera.
The world’s oldest common loon - and the most productive documented loon mother - touched down last week in the Upper Peninsula nature preserve that she calls her seasonal home. The loon, known ...
But that isn’t far from how one of her biographers, Michaela Lindinger, a curator at the Vienna Museum ... Elisabeth wrote that she hated love, or, in other words, sex: “For me no love ...