The Vargas Blog

Back in 2012 Netflix struck a deal with Disney to have exclusive rights to stream new films from Marvel , Pixar , LucasFilm s, and Walt D...

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the poster for the 54th New York Film Festival . It was designed by film director Apic...

If Finnish conductor/composer Esa-Pekka Salonen were eying the job of Music Director at the Metropolitan Opera , recently vacated by Jame...

After missing my original date to go to see Roberto Devereux at the Metropolitan Opera as a result of being in the hospital, I finally a...

The Crucible , Arthur Miller 's powerful 1953 drama, about the hysteria that sent twenty people to their deaths accused of being witch...

The Metropolitan Opera will open next year's 2016-2017 season, celebrating the company’s fiftieth anniversary at Lincoln Center ...

I learned of the death of Antonin Scalia while sitting in theater 2 at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) waiting for a showing of the film...

Tonight was the premiere of South Pole at the Bayerische Staatsoper . This new opera is by composer Miroslav Srnka with a libretto by pl...

 Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden has been named the new music director of the New York Philharmonic. He will start his full-time tenure ...

According to the program of the roadshow edition of Quentin Tarantino 's latest film, The Hateful Eight , the last time a film was sho...

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...