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In Berlin, the director Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production dispenses with the opera’s final sextet and leads directly into ...
The northern German city of Hamburg plans to build a new opera house in the Hafencity district near the port with backing from the private Kühne Foundation, city officials announced on Friday.
A venerable opera house in the German city of Dresden is breaking new ground and allowing an artificial intelligence to take control of an entire scene. For the first time, humans and AI are now ...
U.S. News Insider Tip: If your Munich visit coincides with the opera’s annual summer festival and you’d like to attend a free live broadcast from the National Theatre/open-air concert at Max ...
In 1818, the opera ensemble was given a new home in the newly built National Theater on Max-Joseph-Platz, still the largest opera house in Germany today. The reign of the art-loving Bavarian king ...
Recent productions in Germany and the Netherlands—of classics, curiosities and contemporary works by composers ranging from Strauss to Saariaho—powerfully exemplified the scene’s risk-taking artistic ...