The Vargas Blog

It's a well-known fact that mounting a new production of an opera these days requires a special "vision" from the stage direct...

All the buzz you've heard is true. The Social Network , director David Fincher 's highly entertaining new film chronicling the gene...

It's so difficult to believe that Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010) is dead. Barely a few weeks ago his name was on my lips as I was...

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced that it will kick off its 48th annual New York Film Festival with The Social Network , th...

I recently found out that one of my favorite productions of Parsifal , Nikolaus Lehnnhoff 's post-apocalyptic setting of Wagner 's l...

One of the many results of the so-called Regietheater, the director-driven style of presenting opera that has Europe and most of America and...

The Donmar Warehouse , that magnificent British theatrical institution, is on a roll these days. Recently, three of their productions ( Fros...

At one point, somewhere in the second act, Gomez Adams, played by Nathan Lane , looks up at statuesque Bebe Neuwirth , playing his wife Mort...

For Peter Gelb the new production of Giuseppe Verdi 's Attila might just be the pinnacle of his tenure thus far at the MET. It is a s...

What if World War II had come to an explosive end not in Hitler's bunker in shattered Berlin, but in a movie theater in Nazi occupied Fr...

The Bacchae is perhaps Euripides ' s greatest tragedy, and it is currently running as the second offering in this summer's Free Sha...

When it seemed that it was impossible to get a ticket to the sold out run of Phèdre at the Lyttelton auditorium of The National Theatre i...

LONDON, UK -- The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden is having a winning summer season this year. Between performances of Tosca with Bryn T...

There are two scenes in Michael Mann 's new film Public Enemies that stand out because of their complexity and interesting points of vi...

The Roundabout Theatre Company has a hit on their hands with a superb production of Samuel Beckett 's masterpiece Waiting for Godot pl...

Rolando Villazón did not sing the broadcast of Gaetano Donizzeti 's L'Elisir d'Amore at the MET yesterday afternoon. The of...

There is a very cute payoff at the end of Mary Zimmerman 's new production of Vincenzo Bellini 's La Sonnambula at The Metropolitan...