The Deutsche Oper Berlin is staging Karlheinz Stockhausen’s epic “Mittwoch aus Licht” at the start of a new season and a new ...

3 Review: LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Royal Ballet And Opera Regietheater (German for director's theater) is the post World War II practice of modern theatrical production that has a stranglehold on ...

What exactly is an opera? Karlheinz Stockhausen spent much of the last quarter of the 20th century providing increasingly ...

Deutsche Oper Berlin's Verdi Festival 2018 took a very inauspicious turn with last night's woefully underrehearsed performance of LA TRAVIATA. Within the first 8 bars of the Prelude, I knew we were in ...

But those of you who weren't in the hall will want to know what it was actually like, not least visually since this, of all Proms, isn’t to be televised. After his less-is-more semi-stagings of Wagner ...

Kasper Holten turns the story of Lohengrin on its head and delivers a staging of elemental power that's gloriously performed in Berlin Deutsche Oper Berlin (Photo: Keith McDonnell) A stranger answers ...

Ob das wohl gutgeht? Künftig sollen gleich drei Dirigenten die musikalische Leitung der Deutschen Oper bekleiden, wie Kultursenatorin Sarah Wedl-Wilson (56) und der designierte Intendant Aviel Cahn ...

Musically, it’s hard to imagine a finer Tristan und Isolde than the one that opened at the Deutsche Oper on Saturday. Dramatically, however, it’s a very different story. Michael Thalheimer’s staging, ...

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 what music! Wagner's Overture to Tannhäuser is justly seen as a masterpiece in its own right, but under Donald Runnicles the orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin pushed the music along with an almost ...