A few years ago, when I was in Catalonia, Spain, I heard about the Cornut Festival (pronounced kor-noot) in a small rural village. Unable to get specific information about it, I nonetheless decided to ...

"It's nothing to do with loving a man," government prosecutor Mortimer screams at King Edward II at the beginning of George Benjamin's third opera, "Lessons in Love and Violence." He pays heavily for ...

Beauty will save the world, Dostoevsky wrote. And even though it may be futile as a weapon against coronavirus, beauty can help make the lockdown bearable. There are plenty of treasures to be found ...