These instruments include the Celtic harp, handfuls of marbles swirled in a glass bowl, basic synthesizers, and a daxophone (a kind of stringless cello that makes eerily human sounds through the ...

In 1993, Octavia Butler imagined the year 2024: There would be intense, apocalyptic climate change leading to the exploitation of workers, a massive refugee crisis, and major violent class disparities ...

Le Grand Macabre, Munich opera review — apocalypse almost now in soup of sex, booze and kink on facebook (opens in a new window) Le Grand Macabre, Munich opera review — apocalypse almost now in soup ...

Red means War,” said Harriet March Page of Goat Hall’s San Francisco Cabaret Opera to explain “The Red Horse,” the title of the second concert in the series Horsewomen of the Apocalypse, featuring all ...

Richard Wagner — famous for his sweeping, all-encompassing artistry, infamous for his antisemitic, proto-Nazi ethos, now evoked by Vladimir Putin’s mercenary force — is back in town. He’s back in a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The end of the world is nigh; so what’s new? It was nigh when György Ligeti wrote Le Grand Macabre in 1978, and ...