The Vargas Blog

You are in for a treat when the film Persepolis opens in the United States at the end of December. I was fortunate to see it last weekend ...

One of the best experiences that a film lover can have at the New York Film Festival is discovering a new talent, a new voice in cinema. It...

The Metropolitan Opera opened its 2007-2008 with a new drop-dead gorgeous staging of Gaetano Donizetti 's Lucia di Lammermoor . The pr...

The New York Daily News reported recently that Daniel Radcliffe , better known to movie goers as Harry Potter, will be coming to Broadway i...

It's been a few days since his death, and it is still difficult to think of a world without Luciano Pavarotti . He was the first real s...

In an interview given to PlaybillArts in May of 2006, German bass René Pape disclosed that he is preparing the role of Hans Sachs in Wagner...

Opera houses mounting productions of Richard Wagne r 's last work, Parsifal , are careful to remind audiences that according to the wish...

Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni died this week, both on the same date: July 30, and both in their native countries of Sweden and...

No doubt as a response to Katharina Wagner 's new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Bayreuth , this article called "...

With expectations high as Katharina Wagner , the composer's great grand-daughter, directs her first opera in the house that Richard Wagn...

I missed The Kirov Opera 's Siegfried , but you bet that I was there for Götterdämmerung , the final music drama of Richard Wagner ...

After the death of Beverly Sills and Regine Crespin this month, tenor Jerry Hadley now dies after a self-inflicted head wound. Here is a...

As of today, the latest and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows has been leaked, in real and fake versions, in nu...

Saturday evening brought the second night of The Kirov Opera Ring to The Metropolitan Opera with a performance of Die Walküre . Several g...

On the same weekend that Russian president Vladimir Putin suspended his country's involvement in the "Conventional Forces in Europ...