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.

Yuval Sharon is widely recognized as one of the opera world’s most influential figures. Founder of the Los Angeles opera company The Industry, Sharon has pioneered site-specific, immersive and ...

BERLIN (AFP) — World-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim said on Friday he was stepping down as general musical director of Berlin’s State Opera due to deteriorating health, marking the ...

When the curtain rises on Berlin’s renovated state opera next week, the greatest drama won’t be on-stage – but off. For seven years, the Staatsoper on the Unter den Linden boulevard has been a ghostly ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a freezing January evening, a large crowd gathered to watch as three stolpersteine were hammered into the sidewalk outside the Komische Oper Berlin. These brass stones commemorate victims — mostly, ...

Semyon Bychkov will be the musical director for a period when the opera’s performance spaces are under renovation. It’s a ...

Reporting from Hamburg, Germany — For whatever reason — a worry about looming dystopia, perhaps — Germany is having its Babylonian moment. Major new opera productions here in Hamburg and in Berlin ...

The collective sigh of relief throughout Berlin’s opera world is almost audible. The future of the German capital’s three big opera houses, including Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Daniel ...