“phantom of the opera” ghost

Michael Chabon’s novel of superheroes and villains reborn as opera

Fifty years on, Brian May and Roger Taylor reveal the vision, precision and daring behind Queen ’s A Night At The Opera , the album that rewrote rock’s rules.

Had Tchaikovsky had his way, his The Tempest might not actually have had a tempest in it at all. As he first pondered his Shakespearean fantasy-overture in early 1873, the Russian composer considered

Just two decades after the premiere of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, the Soviet Union paid a New York opera company to stage performances there. The year was 1956 and the Cold War was well underwa

Thomas Pynchon’s haunted vision of history

No one notices Bruce Springsteen. He makes no effort to hide—black T-shirt, blue jeans, Wayfarer sunglasses, honky-tonk cowboy boots—but for a few minutes, the most famous son of the Jersey Shore achi