Since their closure in 2020 due to the coronavirus, American opera houses have been struggling to regain their financial footing—and their audiences. Most have reduced the number of performances they ...

Peter Tregear is chair of Melbourne-based not-for-profit chamber opera company IOpera. Opera Australia has received outstanding reviews for its Melbourne season of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin.

Christian Thielemann succeeds world-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim as general musical director of its State Opera following his resignation due to ...

Productions of Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" divide audiences. Should emphasis be placed on the opera's comical elements, or is it to be seen as more of a serious play about German ...

His works, which were radically individual, were among the most celebrated of the late 20th and early 21st century. By A.J. Goldmann A.J. Goldmann is an American journalist who writes about European ...

Koutaiba Al Rahmoon tap-dances across the stage in cut-off trousers and a kitsch Christmas jumper. The Syrian drama student had never performed before coming to Europe. Four years later, he’s ...

Germany is, on statistical grounds, the most operatic country on earth. The Bundesrepublik has more than eighty permanent opera houses, which in a typical season present seven or eight thousand ...

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 ...

The renowned German opera singer Peter Seiffert has died at the age of 71, his agency reported on Tuesday. Seiffert, a celebrated interpreter of Wagner, passed away on Monday in his adopted home near ...