Matthias Pintscher’s first opera in 20 years invites audiences to find their own meaning in a macabre 19th-century tale. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Christian Thielemann’s inaugural new production as the ...

The Berlin State Opera, one of the most important opera houses in the world, has a new maestro. Christian Thielemann will succeed Daniel Barenboim, who stepped down in January for health reasons.

BERLIN - Berlin said on Wednesday that German maestro Christian Thielemann would succeed world-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim as general musical director of its State Opera following ...

Berlin said Wednesday German maestro Christian Thielemann would succeed world-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim as general musical director of its State Opera following his resignation ...

Kirsten Harms is in a fighting mood. Her city has perhaps the richest opera scene in the world -- three major companies, something that's almost unheard of. But Harms, general manager of the Deutsche ...

AFP — World-renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim has had his contract with Berlin’s State Opera extended until 2027, the city said Tuesday, despite several musicians complaining about his bullying.

To go to the opera in Berlin is to develop an acute sense for the tonalities of provocation. On the one hand the massive and often brutal interpretative interventions that mark so many operatic ...

Just before the curtain dropped on an otherwise uneventful opera, the grisly scene that everyone came to see finally transpired. The King of Crete pulled the severed head of the prophet Muhammad out ...

The orchestras of the Berlin Opera Foundation (Comic Opera, State Opera and German Opera), as well as the Concert Hall Orchestra and the German Theatre Association, have been involved in bitter wage ...