
Mozart, propagandist, in new rendering of old classic
The current version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute at Los Angeles Opera raises two essential artistic questions (plus, perhaps, eyebrows).

McBride's "Good Lord Bird," Packer's "Unwinding": National Book Award winners
The Good Lord Bird, the adventures of a disguised black child caught up in John Brown's abolitionist crusade, was the winner of the National Book Award for fiction.

In Verdi’s “Falstaff,” all the world’s a jest
What better way to celebrate Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's bicentennial than with a production of Falstaff?

