The Feuilleton

High and Low Notes on the Culture

By A.J. Goldmann

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Reflections on the 2025-6 Berlin Opera Season...and a Look Ahead

Once again, the Berlin opera season startled with sheer volume and variety of titles on offer: over 90 staged opera productions, including 24 premieres…

Jun 11•A.J. Goldmann

Roman Impressions: Bernini and the Barberini

A gallery from the Palazzo Barberini's jewel-like exhibition tracing the sculptor's artistic evolution, and the development of the Baroque, under the…

Jun 10•A.J. Goldmann

An Unusual Changing of the Musical Guard in Munich

This just in: The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced the 40-year-old Czech conductor Petr Popelka as its next General Music Director starting with the…

Jun 10•A.J. Goldmann

Valie Export, Feminist Artist Who Made the Body a Battleground, Dies at 85

Valie Export, the Austrian artist, filmmaker and performer whose confrontational actions of the 1960s and 1970s helped define feminist art in Europe and…

May 22•A.J. Goldmann

Wednesday Arts Briefing (March 25 - April 1)

The Feuilletonist's picks for the week ahead include the long-awaited return of the Berliner Philharmoniker to the Salzburg Easter Festival, Rothko in…

Mar 25•A.J. Goldmann

Previewing the American Future of European Opera in Berlin

New productions of Janáček and Offenbach at Deutsche Staatsoper unten den Linden by two of the boldest American directors of their generation, both…

Mar 15•A.J. Goldmann

And The Oscar Goes To...

With the 98th Academy Awards nearly upon us, here are my choices for who tonight's winners should be

Mar 15•A.J. Goldmann

A Short Guide to ‘Tristan’ on Screen

The uses and abuses of Wagner's most haunting and romantic score on the silver screen.

Mar 12•A.J. Goldmann