The Vargas Blog

It takes a ballsy opera singer to take on Giacomo Puccini' s great opera Tosca . Even more, it takes a truly fearless Prima-Donna to t...

It's great that A Quiet Place has become the latest horror film sensation. Directed and starring John Krasinski and his wife Emily B...

The film CASABLANCA will be shown on TCM tomorrow, Wednesday at 8:00pm EST. For more information about this classic movie go to my websi...

" Angels in America, a Gay Fantasia on National Themes ," Tony Kushner 's epic play about the politics of the AIDS crisis ...

Today, on the day that many Christians commemorate the death of Jesus Christ, many New York food lovers will witness the death of an insti...

Will this be the straw that finally breaks Peter Gelb 's back? James Levine is suing the Metropolitan Opera over the fact that he wa...

The Oscars are tonight, of course.  Here are some last minute predictions: Actor in a leading role: Gary Oldman Actor in a supportin...

Waco , a six part miniseries based on the 1993 siege of the Waco, Texas compound of the Branch Dividians, a millenarian cult led by David ...

 The premise of the comic book Black Panther , now a major motion picture from Marvel Studios , was to be an antidote to the racism found ...

François Girard 's Apocalyptic production of Parsifal is back at the MET this month, with a stellar cast, and under the direction of ...

Very few directors can build a sense of dread and maintain it through a three act structure like Paul Thomas Anderson . In his latest film...

The Post is Steven Spielberg 's film about the publishing by the Washington Post of the Pentagon Papers, classified information detai...

Catching up with the possible Oscar nominated films of 2017, I finally got around to see the very fine Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Mi...

I didn't see them all.  I even missed some of the best, but out of the ones I got a chance to see, these are the top ten best films of...

All hail Mark Rylance !  Four years after his star turn in repertory performances of Olivia in Twelfth Nigh t and the title character in R...

In about 24 hours the Metropolitan Opera will unveil the new production of Giacomo Puccini 's Tosca , a new staging New York opera fa...

It took me a few days to get to Star Wars: The Last Jedi , the latest installment of a cinematic saga that despite its endmost title, is p...

The new production of Giacomo Puccini 's La Bohème at the Opéra National de Paris takes place one hundred years from now, in a space...

James Levine , Conductor Emeritus of the Metropolitan Opera is heading for trouble.  The opera company announced that it would look into ...

These days we are not in the habit of editing operas. Go to any performance of Richard   Wagner 's works and more than likely you...