The rest is silence

Asmik Grigorian & Iurii Samoilov in Eugene Onegin (Metropolitan Opera, 2026)

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Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov

Medium: Tanned leather and glass beads

Portrait of Lady Sunderland, (details), (1786), by Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723 – 1792), oil on canvas, 238.5 cm (93.8 in) x 147.5 cm (58 in), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Saitama, Japan.

Spring in the Carpathian Mountains by Alexandru Jitaru

Elīna Garanča as Carmen, Elizabeth Caballero as Frasquita, and Sandra Piques Eddy as Mercédès in Carmen (Met 2011)

OPERA IN HISTORY - March 3 On this day in 1875, Bizet’s iconic opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

Leporello in the Royal Opera House Don Giovanni (2019)

Handel's Rodelinda (Garsington Opera, 2025)

The emancipation of Hungarian Jews in the 1860s manifested itself in many synagogues built at the end of the century, which constituted sacred centres of the empire. Such were the great synagogues of Budapest, Pozsony/Bratislava (Slovakia), Nagyvárad/Oradea (Romania) or Szeged, whose Moorish/ Oriental style refer to the thousands of years of Jewish history. Or the impressive synagogues of the great Hungarian plains, Hódmezővásárhely, and, above all, Szabadka/Subotica (Serbia), which used the motifs of the “Hungarian Art Nouveau”, devised by the architects of Budapest, for the expression of their identification with the Hungarian nation.

Jessye Norman, Soprano Phillip Norman 1985