The Fragile Fire of Youth Snow drifts against the Paris rooftops, candles sputter in a draft, and so...
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The Fragile Fire of Youth Snow drifts against the Paris rooftops, candles sputter in a draft, and so...
Step into the heart of the world’s greatest opera house without leaving your seat. The Met: Live in ...
A Dream You Can Hear Bellini’s La Sonnambula opens not with thunderous tragedy or political turmoil,...
A Whirlwind of Wit and Whiskers The overture alone could make you smile. Its jaunty rhythms, crisp c...
A Dangerous Desire The first notes of Richard Strauss’s Salome don’t just begin—they strike. They sh...
The Curtain Rises on Chaos Before a single note is sung, Le Nozze di Figaro opens with a man measuri...
A Fairytale for the Soul It begins, as many tales do, with a young man lost in the woods—fleeing a s...
The Sound of Revolution The church bells of Rome toll softly at dawn. A painter kneels in prayer, a ...
The Silence After the Sky The first sound in Grounded isn’t a trumpet’s fanfare or a jet’s roar—it’s...
Opening: The Poet and His Shadows A poet walks into a tavern, already tipsy on nostalgia. His name i...