"I Pagliacci” or “The Clowns,” set in a traveling circus, is one of the most popular of opera tragedies, full of irresistible ...
At a Sotheby's auction, a violin handcrafted in 1714 by the famous Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari was sold for $11.25 million by the New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston. The proceeds from the ...