My one reservation about the opera when I first heard it was that to some degree, Mr. Adès explored the dark side of Buñuel’s tale, which has been seen as a bitter critique of elite classes during Franco’s regime in Spain, at the expense of its bizarrely comic elements. Continue …

Todd Gordon is seeing something in the markets that he says is about to drive JPMorgan to new record highs. The financials sector is trading at 10-year highs. The TradingAnalysis.com founder says the recent rally in bond yields is reinforcing the surge in big banks, and there are hints of …

His mother, Jill Henshaw, 85, has dementia. She raised five children pretty much on her own after his father abandoned the family when Mr. Hume was an infant, he said. Mr. Hume described the relationship with his mother in only the most loving terms, emotions that made the painting process …

Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images Workmen from a road construction crew guide a road milling machine in Brooklyn, New York. U.S. economic growth probably slowed in the third quarter as hurricanes Harvey and Irma restrained consumer spending and undercut construction activity, but underlying momentum likely remained strong amid robust business …

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Mr. Barenboim acknowledged that Ms. du Pré’s knowledge of music theory “left a bit to be desired, to be quite objective. But she more than made up for that with an extraordinary intuition and sensitivity. I have never encountered somebody like this.” “The greatest musical joy was to play together …

DANNY L HARLE at Brooklyn Night Bazaar (Oct. 27, 8 p.m.). Perhaps the most pop-friendly member of the puckish British dance-music clique PC Music, the producer Danny L Harle specializes in pure, clean tones geared toward euphoria. Songs like “Broken Flowers,” “Ashes of Love” and “ILY2” (which he produced for …

Photo Quintana Roo Dunne, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. Credit John Bryson/Netflix Michael Jackson becomes animated for Halloween. And a documentary explores the life of Joan Didion. What’s Streaming JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD on Netflix. Over the past 50 years, Joan Didion has been one of …