The Vargas Blog

The years have not been kind to Roberto Alagna 's voice. As a matter of fact, I worry about his career, I think he is all washed up. T...

Carlos Ramos , the Portuguese tennis umpire, became the man of the hour when he was on the chair for the Serena Williams / Naomi Osaka fi...

This has been a summer where the heat has plagued events that are close and dear to my heart. My trip to the Bayreuth Festival this year ...

An incredible, almost unbelievable real cop story about the infiltration of a backwaters Ku Klux Klan chapter by a rookie black undercover...

Romeo Castellucci is a director of deep, abstract ideas.  His stage productions are abstractions that constantly ask the audience to thin...

The current production of Parsifal , now in its third year, replaced the Stefan Herheim staging I was lucky to see in 2012. That producti...

The new production of Lohengrin , with sets and costumes by husband-and-wife team of Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy promised the first swan knig...

One of the highlights of last year’s trip to Bayreuth was attending Barrie Kosky ’s new production of Die Meistersin...

Certainly one of the wonders of Wagner' s Der fliegende Holländer is how close it was to the music of Weber and Meyerbeer .  Although...

This was the scene in Tampa, Florida as Jim Acosta from CNN was doing his reporting at one of Donald Trump 's rallies.  The crowd, ...

Remember that line Jeff Goldblum said in the film The Fly , as he was leaving his humanity behind and turning into a hideous monster? ...

There is a new production of Parsifal at the Bavarian State Opera . It features a stellar cast of Wagnerians: Jonas Kaufmann in the title...

Piotr Beczała has accepted the challenge of taking over the title role in the new Bayreuth production of Lohengrin , after Roberto Alagn...

 Roberto Alagna has withdrawn from Richard Wagner ’s Lohengrin at the Bayreuth Festival . The festival announced that the tenor, who was...

Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom is the perfect title to describe the current state of the franchise that started with Michel Crichton '...

On June 28, the Bavarian State Opera unveils their new production of Richard Wagner 's Parsifal . The production will be directed ...

I never get tired of watching Kenneth MacMillan 's brilliant choreography of Sergei Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet . The more I att...

Robert De Niro hurled the F-bomb last night at the Tony Awards towards Donald Trump .  CBS, which broadcasted the show live, scrambled to...

The Band's Visit is the musical on everybody's lips as the Tony Awards approaches. At the ceremony tonight, this little gem of a...

Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018) He had a knack for entering the kitchens of far-away countries, and making us feel as if we knew that dist...