Operas is a medium built for sweeping tales and grand emotion. This fall, the LA Opera — partnering with Beth Morrison Projects — presents the world premiere of “Hildegard,” running at The Wallis from ...

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Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...

In the center of the room, under glass, a Hebrew Bible lies open to the Book of Psalms. Gold leaf glimmers on the borders; red dragons grasp a blue shield while green and blue birds perch on curling ...

The team over at Teenage Engineering must be in a generous mood this year, as they've been unveiling attention-grabbing promotions on a monthly basis under the banner of Flipped Out '25. Back in June, ...

Being awake at 7 am on Sunday isn’t an ideal situation, regardless of whether you have yet to make your way to bed from the night before or whether you are, for some ungodly reason, an early riser. No ...

In the end, the key to answering a 130-year-old literary mystery was bad handwriting. Back in the 1890s, MR James, a University of Cambridge medievalist best known for penning ghost stories, made a ...

King Arthur, Sir Gawain, and plenty of other chivalric characters are still well known in today’s culture. But one hero is a huge mystery: Wade. A new translation of an old manuscript reconsiders the ...

Rare music is set to be played at a Devon abbey for the first time in almost 500 years after it was found in a medieval book. A "plaintive" music performance by the University of Exeter's chapel choir ...

‘A Gallery of Kings: Uses and Abuses of Power’ is a program meant to assure audiences that questions of the present have confronted people in the past By some measures, the modern-day Boston Camerata ...

Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little squiggles" on pieces of parchment to guide a singer or choir. Known as medieval neumes, the squiggles didn't ...