Berlin's largest music theater is nominated for a much-coveted Grammy in the "Best Opera Recording" category. Its entry: the early 20th-century opera "The Dwarf." The last time Deutsche Oper Berlin ...

A stranger answers the plea of a distraught woman who’s been wrongly accused in the disappearance of her brother. But who is he? For the inhabitants of war-torn Brabant, his arrival is seen as an act ...

Verdi's Don Carlo is an essential piece of repertoire for major opera houses, but it does not lend itself easily to a fresh, compelling staging. The opera, based loosely on an eponymous play by ...

Any feminist reading of "Tannhäuser" faces its share of challenges. In Wagner's libretto, the title character flees the sensuous realm of the goddess Venus to seek worldly purpose, only to find ...