James Gaffigan has renewed his contract with Komische Oper Berlin, extending his role as General Music Director through the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Berlin said Wednesday German maestro Christian Thielemann would succeed world-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim as general musical director of its State Opera following his resignation ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- This week in our Focusing on the Future series, a high school graduate is using her talent to take her places. Wakisha Bailey introduces us to the young opera singer who's ...

German conductor Christian Thielemann has frequently stepped in to conduct the house orchestra at the Berlin State Opera - Copyright AFP KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI German ...

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 ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin opera house said on Friday it would go ahead with plans to stage a Mozart opera in which the severed head of the Prophet Mohammad is seen, after police reversed their ...