The Vargas Blog

When I was in grammar school, I remember one of my classmates got chewed out by one of my teachers because he was reading the novel Johnny...

Alban Berg 's last, unfinished opera Lulu (completed by composer Friedrich Cerha in 1970) came back to the Metropolitan Opera last ...

Spotlight , the story of how a group of Boston Globe reporters exposed the cover up of sexually abused children by pedophile priests. The ...

Steve Jobs , Danny Boyle 's new film, from a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin , is a series of extraordinary scenes, most of them acted ou...

Robert Zemeckis loves to take us back to the future; his films recreate the past with his brilliant use of cutting-edge technology. He is...

 Pope Francis is finally in the Americas. He just landed in Havana, Cuba, where he has once again urged in his opening speech that rela...

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced that as part of the 53rd New York Film Festival a new documentary by Frederick Wiseman ...

According to the Metropolitan Opera , rehearsals are well underway at the house for opening night, which will premiere the company's n...

It has been announced that Mary Jo Heath will become the new Metropolitan Opera radio host. She replaces Margaret Juntwait , who died e...

When George Benjamin , the composer of the opera Written on Skin , was a teenager he traveled to Paris to study with Olivier Messiaen . Th...

I saw Fun Home last night, a few months after it won the Tony Award as best musical. I thought I was a little late in getting to it, but ...

It cannot be denied that Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez has the kind of voice that only comes once in a lifetime. His lyrical, leggero ...

A recent press release from the Film Society of Lincoln Center reveals that Laurie Anderson has been commissioned to design the poster f...

Next week Benedict Cumberbatch begins his sold-out run of Hamlet at the Barbican in London. The production will be directed by Lindsey ...

I received the following from the Film Society of Lincoln Center: New York, NY (July 29, 2015) – The Film Society of Lincoln Center ann...

The following review appeared today in the New York Times . BAYREUTH, Germany — It’s the season of re-evaluating well-loved characters we...

The following article appeared on The Guardian : It’s that time of year again: the balmy nights of late spring are the augurs ...

Lots of news to report.  First, a poster advertising Opening Night of the Bayreuth Festival (on the left) is now available. The festival ...

Jon Vickers , the great Canadian tenor who excelled in such operatic roles as Otello , Tristan and Peter Grimes died at the age of 88 of...

Mankind's twisted dream to play God is at the heart of the best horror movies in cinema history. It is the driving force behind not ju...