The Critics
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable