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 ...

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 ...

BERLIN — For 25 centuries, a mythic Medea has haunted civilization. The sorceress — mortal granddaughter of Helios, the sun god of Greek mythology — kills two of her children as revenge for her ...

Christian Thielemann conducts the second opera in Wagner‘s Ring cycle, “Die Walküre,” a moving epic about a family in conflict. The Berlin State Opera production features baritone Michael Volle as ...

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 ...