Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Alma,” premiering this week at the Vienna Volksoper, views its often-vilified protagonist through a feminist lens: as a thwarted composer and mother.

The swirling vortex of art, sex, psychology and dissolving taboos that defined fin de siecle Vienna has been rendered flat and flavorless in "Bride of the Wind," a distinctly unimaginative account of ...

Music is music whether composed by angels or monsters. Alma Mahler was a monster, no doubt, but she was a very intriguing monster. She outlived Gustav Mahler by 50 years, destroying all but one of her ...

Nearly 100 years ago Walter Gropius divorced from Alma Mahler, the Viennese musician married to the academy’s famed founder during the planning stages of the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus, an influential avant ...