Larry Wolff is a professor of European history at New York University. His most recent book is The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy (2023).
Larry Wolff
Articles
Great Maestros of the Human Heart
Larry Wolff attends the October 2025 Parma Verdi Festival to write about ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Otello,’ and ‘Falstaff.’
Korngold’s Operatic Dreamscapes
Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s “The Dead City” comes to life at La Scala.
The Verdi Festival and the Soul of Italy
Larry Wolff ponders Italian national identity, past and present, at the Verdi Festival.
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