Manuel Legris, a former étoile, returns to Paris Opera Ballet to stage his version of “Sylvia.” Manuel Legris was a supreme classicist as a dancer. Of “Sylvia,” he said, “I don’t think it’s ...

While playing piano in a French restaurant, an opera singer and a full choir joined me — turning a quiet dinner setting into a beautiful and unexpected musical experience.

Virginia Woolf, in her essay “The Lives of the Obscure,” savors the potential fascination of reading authors whom posterity has cast aside: “One likes romantically to feel oneself a deliverer ...