The Vargas Blog

The Tree of Life , the fifth film in the nearly four decade career of director Terrence Malick , gives back to cinema, and in particular to...

Lars von Trier has been declared "persona non grata" at this year's Cannes Film Festival . During a press conference to promo...

The title of this review does not refer to me having made the trip to Richard Wagner 's Valhalla and having successfully returned, but r...

Last week I went to see Danny Boyle 's production of Nick Dear 's sold-out new play, Frankenstein , from the National Theatre in L...

Calixto Bieito 's controversial 2010 staging of Richard Wagner 's Parsifal is back at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart, Germany. This ...

Ever since artist Nicolas Poussin painted his famous picture " Et in Arcadia Ego ," which shows a group of pastoral shepherds (pa...

For the past few months I have been spotting these strange diagrams, like the one to the left, everywhere, especially in posters in New York...

Willy Decker 's staging of La Traviata was the sold-out event in the summer of 2005 at the Salzburg Festival . That production, starri...

Here are some upcoming performances and productions that are rumored to be coming to The Metropolitan Opera. An asterisk means that it wil...

She had the most beautiful voice. Arturo Toscanini said of Renata Tebaldi that hers was the voice of an angel. Of Joan Sutherland , who ...

The Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall is always a hot ticket in New York, especially when they are led by Gustavo Dudamel , the young m...

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