The Berlin opera house that pulled andthen rescheduled a production featuring the severed heads of Muhammad and other religious figures has confirmed an embarrassing gaffe —that the controversial ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 – Police said Thursday there would be no “concrete danger” in resuming performances of a Mozart opera canceled over security concerns because of a scene showing the severed head of the Prophet ...

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 ...