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Saint-Saëns’s 1883 work is seldom performed today, but it is being well staged and excitingly sung at Bard College.

In explaining the roots of his commitment to civil rights, Tony Bennett often told a story from his Army days, when he brought a Black soldier as his guest to Thanksgiving dinner,...

There is less theater in America these days. Fewer venues. Fewer productions. Fewer performances.Cal Shakes, a Bay Area favorite that staged Shakespeare in an outdoor amphitheater, is producing no shows this year....

A look at how we assembled a sweeping collection of personal narratives, and the threads that tie them together.

Jamie Foxx, the comedian, Oscar-winning actor and Grammy-winning singer, said in a video on Instagram that he could return to work after he was hospitalized with an undisclosed illness in April.“I know...

Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied unit known as the Monuments Men and Women, which during and after World War II preserved a vast amount of European artworks and...

Just a week after performing at the historically Black Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., supporting James Meredith’s March Against Fear, Nina Simone was on fire as she strode onstage to play for...

Malaysia’s government halted a music festival in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, a day after the frontman of the British pop rock band The 1975 kissed a male bandmate onstage and...

When a new production of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” premieres at Santa Fe Opera on July 29, something about it might seem slightly odd.Sure, there will be the usual Orfeo, in this case the...

“Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” (1967)Bennett considered Count Basie and Duke Ellington the two greatest bandleaders he’d ever heard, and with the great Milt Hinton on bass and the Basie regular Joe...