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 ...

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 ...

It is considered the "most German" of Richard Wagner's operas. Adolf Hitler used the work for his propaganda purposes. Productions of Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" divide audiences.

— I echo most emphatically the Warning Voice lifted up by a member of the Club at our last meeting. When the German opera was first introduced into America, there was no limit to the enthusiasm of the ...

THIS, as the admen might tell you, is a chamber-music year. The Lener Quartet arrives from Hungary and gets as much attention as a new dramatic soprano at the Metropolitan. More, I should add, because ...

In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Franz Schubert in a drawing from around 1820. When he ...

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 ...

Once a year the bronzed brick building known to Manhattanites as the Metropolitan Opera House has its one big social night, the opening of the Opera Season. The occasion is a sort of public festival ...

For the past 35 years of attending classical music concerts in Vacaville and the greater Bay Area, I’ve heard a lot of music, particularly German Romantic-era music from the early to late 19th century ...