The Vargas Blog

  Mikhail Bakhtin , the great Russian literary critic, wrote that the novel as a literary genre is a series of carnivalesque episodes; essen...

I can't believe that WagnerOperas.com is twenty-two years old. Not to sound cliché about it, but it only seems like yesterday when I dec...

 I spent this weekend updating the Wagnerians page of the Wagneroperas site. Click here to go to the page, and take a listen to the new a...

  I imagine that after a notorious Meistersinger production by Katharina Wagner that brought to mind the dark days of National Socialism; ...

 In Jamie Lloyd' s minimal staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Sunset Blvd ., based on Billy Wilder 's film noir, so much is left ...

 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...