The Vargas Blog

 At a time when the popular sentiment seems to be to return plundered antiquities to the country from which they came; and as more and more ...

    The last time the Metropolitan Opera presented Giuseppe Verdi 's titanic opera La Forza del Destino it was the 1970's: a decad...

When the Osage people find oil in their newly acquired land, hungry, greedy wolves come prowling in the guise of white cattle barons: white ...

My Mahler fall continues. Let me explain. No sooner did autumn start turning leaves a myriad of seasonal colors, and the weather bid goodbye...

 On the 19th of June, 1877 British pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge made a series of photographs of the race horse Sallie Gardner...

For Sarah Bernhardt , the great actress of the turn of the century, playwright Victorien Sardou wrote the melodrama La Tosca in 1887.  Fro...

  When the 2021-2022 MET season was announced, this revival of Patrice Chéreau 's production of Richard Strauss 's Elektra immediat...