Samson
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Books
A Lost Masterpiece of Opera Returns, Kind of
The Aix Festival is presenting a new version of “Samson,” a never-performed work by Rameau and Voltaire, two of France’s most important cultural figures.
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Newyork
You Can’t Live in the Past, Even in a Period-Accurate Frock
In 2012, not long after he decided to dedicate his professional life to 18th-century wares, Casey Samson spent a weekend at a colonial-era fair in Bardstown, Ky., selling leather mugs out of a tent. On his first night there, Mr. Samson sat alone by a ...