Write Book, Bake Cake, Buy Flowers
Acclaimed first as a novel, then as a movie, The Hours finds a niche at the Metropolitan Opera
Double Coronation
Jake Heggie opens new seasons at the Met and in Houston with Dead Man Walking, his first opera, and Intelligence, his 10th
Till Kingdom Come
The Holy Roman Empire failed so you don’t have to. In a new book, a scion of the Habsburg family interprets lessons from one of Europe’s most powerful dynasties for the personal realm
Photo Finish
More than 100 of Julia Margaret Cameron’s haunting portraits go on view for the first Parisian exhibition of her work in nearly 40 years
Dinner Party From Hell
It’s time for a second look at Thomas Adès’s loopy dance of death The Exterminating Angel
Funny Is His Business
Noam Dworman, owner of the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, has worked with all the greats—including a few you haven’t heard of yet
Searching the Webb
A new book about the jeweler David Webb reveals the inspirations behind the master’s modern designs
Lost and Found
Ahead of his West End role in A Voyage Round My Father, Rupert Everett reflects on losing focus, renouncing Botox, and the value of self-censorship
Dealer’s Choice
In Paris, an exhibition of Modigliani’s paintings highlights the Italian artist’s relationship with Paul Guillaume, who represented and sold his work
Putting It Together
How do you complete a Stephen Sondheim musical without Stephen Sondheim? Call for Jonathan Tunick
The New Dresden
More than 75 years after W.W. II reduced 90 percent of the city center to rubble, a sprawling art collection is spearheading Dresden’s rise from the ashes
Where Have You Been All My Life?
In their 80s, Riccardo Muti and Philip Glass have just started making music together
Blow, Winds, and Crack Your Cheeks! Rage! Blow!
From Stratford, Ontario, a King Lear of symphonic power
The Best of the Rest
Its core titles are rarely out of the U.K. Top 5, and its chattiest, The Rest Is Football, debuted at No. 1. How did Britain’s foremost soccer star, Gary Lineker, quietly build a podcast empire?
Packed House
After a decade of delays, the brand-new Perelman Performing Arts Center will finally host actors, dancers, and artists in Manhattan’s financial district
Game Changer
In January, football player Damar Hamlin nearly died of cardiac arrest during a game. Instead of creating new safety measures, N.F.L. commissioner Roger Goodell is spinning the story as a triumph for the league
Assignment: Sinatra
Part IV
Talese turns in “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”—one of the most memorable profiles in magazine history—and worries about the reaction from editor and subject
Watts’s Stacks
The Rolling Stones drummer was a passionate collector of first editions and jazz ephemera
Jocelyn Bioh
Ahead of the Broadway debut of her new play, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, the actress and playwright discusses why she infuses her stories with humor
Bigger than Life
Tragedy! Triumph! Tinsel! One hundred years of the Hollywood sign
Assignment: Sinatra
Part III
Harold Hayes decides that Esquire will be proceeding with or without the cooperation of Sinatra—whom Talese trails to Las Vegas
A Tweed Apart
Featuring more than 200 looks, a sweeping retrospective of Coco Chanel’s life and career goes up at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Cast to the Rescue
Salzburg’s latest crack at The Marriage of Figaro
Back to Basics
Sixty years on, Lincoln Chase and Shirley Ellis’s hit song “The Nitty Gritty” remains a lesson in style