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 ...

Veteran conductor Daniel Barenboim has been awarded honorary membership of the Berlin State Opera and appointed as honorary principal conductor of its Staatskapelle orchestra, the institutions ...

Daniel Barenboim, general music director of the Berlin State Opera and the Staatskapelle Berlin, adresses a news conference about his contract in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Conductor ...

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 ...

Opera thrives on competition as much as collaboration—on who can sing higher, louder, longer, more passionately; what production can seduce or scandalize most abundantly; which company can hoard the ...

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Of all the abductions, this one is different.

When Contralto Margarete Klose sang in Jenufa at Berlin’s Municipal Opera, she performed excellently. But along with the applause came a shrill of whistles and a thicket of catcalls. It had just been ...