BERLIN – Police said Thursday there would be no “concrete danger” in resuming performances of a Mozart opera canceled over security concerns because of a scene showing the severed head of the Prophet ...

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 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 ...

BERLIN — Since its founding, the Berlin State Opera has lived through a monarchy, two republics and two dictatorships. It is used to strong leaders. On Thursday, when the institution celebrated its ...

The German culture minister said Wednesday she had come up with extra funds to stop the curtain from falling on one of Berlin’s three opera houses that the government, saddled with $53 billion in ...

BERLIN — A Berlin opera house condemned for canceling performances of a Mozart work over concerns that it could provoke violence by Muslims said Thursday it might consider staging the production if it ...

Attempts by #MeToo campaigners last week to prevent one of the world’s leading opera singers, Placido Domingo, from performing in Berlin failed miserably. The Berlin Staatsoper [Berlin State Opera] ...

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 ...

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, ...

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