Imagine seeing something so utterly impossible, your brain screams "It’s there!" even as your logical mind insists it cannot ...

For a long time, people have condemned opera as elitist, irrelevant or moribund, an expensive spectacle catering to well-heeled and well-dressed crowds. Now more than ever, this hard-to-produce, ...

In the category of what Kierkegaard called "thoughts that wound from behind," as I sank ever deeper into Matthew Aucoin's new book, The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), ...