More couples are skipping the traditional processional to Richard Wagner’s “Bridal Chorus.”
Category: Music
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Timothée Chalamet Sings Live for the Bob Dylan Biopic, ‘A Complete Unknown’
The actor’s vocals so impressed the film’s director that he used the live recordings, instead of those prerecorded in a studio. Here’s a look at other actors who have hit their own high notes in musical biopics.
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At Opening Night at La Scala, Opera Is the Center of the Universe
There is nothing quite like opening night of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, a temple of opera, for pomp, pageantry and politics.
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36 Things That Stuck With Us in 2024
The movie scenes, TV episodes, song lyrics and other moments that reporters, critics, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
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YoungBoy Never Broke Again Sentenced to 23 Months in Prison For Gun Possession
The rapper, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden, admitted to possessing guns as a felon in Louisiana. He faced a maximum sentence of 25 years.
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Shadow of a Childless Woman: The Mythic Roots of Strauss’s ‘Frau’
What’s behind the strange emphasis on childlessness in “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” the Strauss-Hofmannsthal opera now at the Met? Look to the ancients.
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‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Score, a Noisy Gem, Will Arrive at Last
Fifty-one years after the smash horror movie, its groundbreaking and unconventional music — long a “holy grail” — will arrive on vinyl.
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Best Classical Performances of 2024
Standouts included the soprano Lise Davidsen and the Berlin Philharmonic, a new opera by Missy Mazzoli and bits of old ones by Schubert.
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The London Contemporary Music Festival Trolls for Aesthetics
The directors of the London Contemporary Music Festival discuss this year’s edition, the event’s 10th anniversary.
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Marvin Laird, Musical Presence on and Off Broadway, Dies at 85
He conducted Broadway shows and worked with Bernadette Peters. But he was probably best known for writing the music for the darkly comic “Ruthless!”
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Angela Alvarez, Great-Grandmother Who Won a Latin Grammy, Dies at 97
Her only album made her a media star after she had raised four children and worked as a house cleaner — proving, she said, that “it’s never too late.”
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For Taylor Swift, It’s the End of the ‘Eras’
A two-year tour that permeated the culture plays one last night in the Canadian city of Vancouver.