“Why her?” the journalist Mark Oppenheimer writes toward the end of his first biography, “Judy Blume: A Life.” “What is it about Judy and her work that won her so many millions of fans?” Partly talent ...

The title-role in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor is one of the pinnacles of the bel canto repertoire. It’s a role that made Joan Sutherland’s career when she sang it at Covent Garden in 1959 and it ...

The story of Tupac Shakur has been told many times since his tragic death at just 25 following a drive-by shooting in 1996. Yet a life so big and complicated is always ripe for further exploration.

The digital demagogue earned billions by anticipating the market’s needs. Now, his philanthropic foundation is helping countless others across the globe. Bill Gates is perhaps the most well-known ...

In a publisher’s warehouse in Milan last fall, Kalamazoo-born Conductor Thomas Schippers discovered an opera score dedicated to Queen Margherita * of Italy and tied up in purple string. In Spoleto ...

When the critic Janet Malcolm set aside a biography of Sylvia Plath and began reading a memoir about the author instead, she felt as if she “had been freed from prison.” The writing in the biography, ...

In 'JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography,' we hear about the life and tragic death of John F. Kennedy's only son, who died at age 38 Lizz Schumer is the Senior Editor, Books, at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A love triangle, as in most of the opera plots. The form is usually: the tenor is in love with the ...