With a population of nearly four million residents, Berlin is at once the capital of Germany and the largest city in ...

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 ...

Deutsche Opera Berlin presents Tischlerei concert on March 21st at 8 pm, a memorial concert for Alfons Hirsch, Max Nelken, Kurt Oppenheimer and Ernst Silberstein. In the chamber concert series ...

Best known for his centenary Ring at Bayreuth in 1976, and the first complete Lulu in Paris three years later, French director Patrice Chéreau enjoyed something of an Indian summer with acclaimed ...

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 ...

But it works handsomely. Veteran director Giles Havergal’s hands-off approach would surely have pleased Weill’s testy collaborator Brecht. And having the songs accompanied, superbly, by Martin Pickard ...