The Vargas Blog

The Metropolitan Opera will premiere its new Parsifal next season.  It is a production conceived by François Girard that just had its prem...

Ever since he broke the ban on encores at the Metropolitan Opera a few seasons ago in the new production of La Fille du Régiment, Juan Die...

The Metropolitan Opera announced this week its 2012-2013 lineup. It features exciting new productions, a totally new work, and a a good cr...

After being on the waiting list for about nine years, which of course felt more like nine centuries (there's an Italian bel canto line i...

Robert Lepage's Metropolitan Opera Ring of the Nibelung has finally come to a conclusion with the unveiling of Götterdämmerung , t...

It soon becomes clear as you watch the new American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo that director David Fincher is the perfe...

When Martin Scorsese 's point of departure for a film is personal, the result is always an outstanding movie. This is the case with Hug...

In a memorable scene from J Edgar , Clint Eastwood 's new biopic of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's first director, the youn...

I received the following press release this evening from the Film Society of Lincoln Center . The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced ...

I did not see all of the films that played at the 49th New York Film Festival , but I saw enough of them to be able to put together a top t...

When Mikhail Bakhtin writes about the polymorphously perverse and carnavalesque nature of the novel, the great Russian literary theorist co...

The Weinstein Company is back with another mid 20th century story set in England about a British royal and a commoner to rival last year...

Little remains of DOGME95 in the current films issuing from the mind of Danish film director Lars von Trier. In his latest, Melancholia ,...

God of Carnage , Yasmina Reza 's international smash hit play has been brought to the screen by director Roman Polanski , featuring an ...

At the press screening of Tahrir: Liberation Square the new documentary that chronicles the Egyptian revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak...

The Main Slate for the 49th New York Film Festival is set. Twenty-seven films are in the main section of the festival, including Roman Pol...

I just received the following Press Release from the New York Film Festival : New York, NY, July 29, 2011 - The Film Society of Lincoln Cent...

A pregnant Venus, a Wartburg transformed into a biogas plant breaking down organic matter, a Venusberg filled with caged subhumans right out...

Here is a news report, in German, about Sebastian Baumgarten 's new controversial production of Tannhäuser , with actual video clips fro...

The following article appears through the courtesy of AFP News Agency : Germany's 100th Richard Wagner opera festival kicked off here M...