This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Opera has housed a long and curious fetish for the convent. Around a century ago, composers couldn’t get enough of ...

Best classical music for meditation: from Hildegard von Bingen to John Cage, we recommend six pieces that will aid serenity ...

The end is nigh at the start of “Vision — From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen.” A group of Christian believers huddles in a dark, stone dwelling awaiting the end. The following morn, the sun rises — ...

There's a strangely retro feel to Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen-- and not just because its subject is a 12th-century nun famous for being called from above to light up the dark ages ...

Lest one imagine that female achievement and ambition is a new phenomenon, the life of Hildegard von Bingen stands as a stark corrective. Hildegard lived in the 12th century. Born to a noble family, ...

Pope Benedict XIV has indicated he plans to canonize the 12th-century female composer, mystic, author, physician and abbess Hildegard von Bingen and then proclaim her a Doctor of the Church in October ...

It’s hard to muster more than curious indifference to Margarethe von Trotta’s “Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen.” The film’s feminist themes and strong female protagonist are elements ...

Who: With Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung. Written and directed by Margarethe von Trotta. Rated: Not rated. Running time: 111 minutes. Language: German ...

Margarethe von Trotta, who helped lead the New German Cinema movement and has been considered one of the world’s premiere feminist filmmakers ever since directing (with then-husband Volker Schlöndorff ...

March is Women's History Month, and we're reaching back to the 12th century today with music by one of the earliest documented women composers. Hildegard von Bingen was born in 1179, and was educated ...

Folk vagabond Devendra Banhart has shared more details about his new album, Mala, his first studio album since 2009's What Will We Be. The record will be out on March 12 through his new home label ...

And botanists, conservationists, art historians, and museum curators picked some of the best artistic representations of them over 3,500 years for our new book, Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World.