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 ...

MUNICH — “We tell the story of Moses because it is actually our story,” one teenager, a refugee from Afghanistan by way of Iran, said in the Hazaragi dialect to the German-speaking audience at the ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Opera singer and ...

If you want to make a career as an opera singer, Germany, with 80 opera houses, is one of the best places to go. While mastering the German language can be tricky, a unique course at Middlebury ...

2006-09-27 04:00:00 PDT Berlin-- Mozart has survived grandiose conductors and abstract interpretations, but the librettos for his operas never cast Islamic radicals threatening a skittish theater ...

The stereotype with opera is that productions are sung in Italian and are tragic. Well, that's not so with every opera. "Die Fledermaus," aka "The Bat," is a hilarious German comedy that is delivered ...

BERLIN, Dec. 18 -- 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 ...