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This summer, the Salzburg Festival is staging Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss’s opera from 1912. The festival is staging it in the House for Mozart, formerly known as the Little Festival Hall. It ...

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Ten years ago, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary declared “surreal” its word of the year. There were many reasons for its popularity that year. In the century since the 1924 publication of André Breton’s ...