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You can see how the Bolshoi and City Ballet styles are related: long phrases, luxurious texture, expansive physicality, calmly off-balance emphasis. The Paris style, marvelously chic, proves far less right for Balanchine, above all in the women’s clipped phrasing and anti-musical dynamics (dwelling archly on transitions, flicking lightly through important …

Mr. Foccroulle’s approach was evident in the other work I saw at Aix, Bizet’s “Carmen.” It’s opera’s ultimate golden oldie, but Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production, meticulously staged and performed with rare intensity, questions why we keep coming back to this story. The traditional Spanish setting has vanished, in favor of a …

Photo Morton Subotnick performing “Silver Apples of the Moon” at the Lincoln Center Festival. Credit Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times By now, we’re used to what are known as “historically informed performances” of early music, which seek to revive the instruments and styles that audiences in, say, the Baroque …

“Miss Blanche” works best as a vehicle for Mr. Rooney, who played Lucy Brown in the 2006 Broadway revival of “The Threepenny Opera” and the diva Dionne Salon in the cult musical “Bedbugs!!!” (which originated at the same festival, now in its 13th year.) He is particularly comfortable portraying bittersweet …

Explaining his jack-of-all-trades attitude, Mr. Panter, who grew up mostly in rural Sulphur Springs, Tex., wrote in an email: “I am wired to make stuff. Life is short and these various mediums have different things to offer, so I am seeing what I can do.” Photo The cover of “Songy …

Photo “The Raising of Lazarus” (circa 1530–1540), by an anonymous German artist, was salvaged by the Monuments Men at the end of World War II. The painting was returned to an heir, Frank Winkel, at a ceremony in Munich on Friday. An heir of a prominent German banking family recovered …

Photo Jay-Z, who heralded the arrival of Tidal in 2015, has become one of the most high-profiles faces in the music-streaming business. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times The Popcast is hosted by Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Times. It covers the latest …

The idea that a nervous nightclub host would pull the plug on Mr. Parrish today is laughable: Over the last 20 years, he’s established himself as one of the most respected D.J.s in the world, capable of charting an expansive, open-minded journey over the course of his sets, spanning not …

Judith is voiced by Jessie Shelton (“Hadestown”) and Jase by Jonathan Groff (“Frozen,” “Hamilton”). Jase’s pet duck is uncredited, and if that duck dies a tragic, Éponine-esque death in the third act, hey, confit for all. As directed by Mr. Littler and Ms. Winter, Act I — which has already …

Photo Bruce Willis and Hayden Christensen in “First Kill.” Credit Brian Douglas/Lionsgate Premiere “First Kill,” a decently executed but generic thriller, is most notable for advancing the dubious theory that the best way to help a child who is being bullied is to traumatize the heck out of him. Will …