The Vargas Blog

 After a long time not posting on this blog, I am glad to say that I am back. Many things happened during that time. There were deaths in th...

Bayreuth 2020 has been canceled due to COVID-19, but music will continue over the Internet.  Below is the complete schedule of the alter...

With the COVID-19 pandemic raging around the country, and all sorts of sports having to take a back seat to health and safe hygiene requir...

Ennio Morricone , the composer of 400 film scores among them The Good, The Bad and the Ugly , Once Upon a Time in America , Once Upon a Ti...

Today would have been the first day of Spain's annual celebration of men (and women) with balls big enough to run in front of a pack o...

Is this the right time to show Hamilton on the new streaming service, Disney+ ? Months ago, maybe even weeks ago it would have been the p...

Rifkin's Festival is Woody Allen 's new film, and it will premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival . Since Spain has been able t...

Sir Ian Holm , one of the great British actors of stage and screen, died yesterday at the age of 88. That memorable, even disgusting pictu...

The year 2020 will be remembered not only because the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the  Bayreuth Festival to close its doors for the firs...

Perhaps no production of The Ring of the Nibelung at Bayreuth has caused so much controversy in the last two decades as Frank Castorf ...

I'm not a very avid or faithful TV watcher. I never saw Friends , but I hear today that its creator, Marta Kauffman is apologizing fo...

Gone With the Wind , the 1939 multiple Oscar-winning film that many critics view as one of the greatest ever made in the history of Americ...

The Metropolitan Opera has decided to cancel the September 21 Opening Night Gala of the new production of Giuseppe Verdi 's Aida . Ev...

The picture above tells it all. A cop using violence on a man on his knees who seems to be praying, while the cop's partner, next to ...

Can 2020 get any worse? On a personal woe level, it started with the breakdown of my iMac and the loss of data, and it continued, in cine...

  The 2020-2021 Metropolitan Opera season sounds very exciting. It will open with a new production of Aida . This is a risky move by Ge...

Last night, at the 92nd Oscar ceremony, the film Parasite did something no other film had done in the history of the awards. Bong Joon-ho...

In Ivo Van Hove 's recreation of West Side Story it's not always easy, at first, to tell the Jets from the Sharks. Each gang is ...

Bram Stoker 's novel has been given the BBC Mark Gatiss / Steven Moffat treatment. Their adaptation of Dracula owes less to the aut...