2004-03-08 04:00:00 PDT Berlin-- From the start of the prolonged offstage drama that has been convulsing Berlin's opera world since the late 1990s, two inescapable and contradictory realities seemed ...

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 ...

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.

When communism fell throughout the former Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and with it the hated Wall that had divided Berlin, that historic event did far more than merely propel Berlin down a brave ...

The German culture minister said Wednesday she had come up with extra funds to stop the curtain from falling on one of Berlin’s three opera houses that the government, saddled with $53 billion in ...

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 ...