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 ...

Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler. By Cate Haste.Bloomsbury; 486 pages; £26. To be published in America by Basic Books in September; $32. ALMA MAHLER was the supreme femme fatale of ...

Alma Mahler is slipping. Wife and lover of great composers, writers, artists, architects, she now attracts lesser creative types. An embarrassing biopic, “Bride of the Wind,” was released to little ...

Because the Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol got roasted on a political hot seat in Haifa 17 years ago, theatergoers in Los Angeles -- well, those willing to pay $125 -- now get to experience a ...

In this sympathetic, engrossing biography of Viennese socialite and composer Alma Mahler (1879–1964), Haste (Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint) traces Mahler’s struggle to find equilibrium among her ...

On the second page of “Passionate Spirit,” the English biographer Cate Haste runs up her flag: “I like Alma Mahler,” she declares. This statement places the author in direct contradiction to three ...