The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what has hooked them recently. Leave your own favorites in the comments. Nicole Scherzinger I would not have expected the former lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, Nicole Scherzinger, to convincingly …
Is it oil? Is it youth? Is it tactile? Invisible? For Wagner, the magic gold that is stolen from the bottom of the Rhine at the start of his four-opera “Ring” cycle, setting the plot in motion, was a tangible, shiny nugget. It is embedded in the riverbed, his libretto …
The Palais Garnier in Paris is among the world’s oldest theaters that still functions more or less in its original state. And long before the appearance of the selfie-stick, the Garnier was a place not just to see art, but to be seen. At a 150th anniversary gala on Friday, …