Daniel Barenboim's Berlin opera house appeared yesterday to have won its battle for survival, with a rescue by the state at the cost of 300 jobs. The German capital, laden with debts of almost £30bn, ...

With a population of nearly four million residents, Berlin is at once the capital of Germany and the largest city in ...

The Berlin State Opera, one of the most important opera houses in the world, has a new maestro. Christian Thielemann will succeed Daniel Barenboim, who stepped down in January for health reasons.

BERLIN - Berlin said on Wednesday that German maestro Christian Thielemann would succeed world-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim as general musical director of its State Opera following ...

Christian Thielemann succeeds world-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim as general musical director of its State Opera following his resignation due to ...

2004-03-08 04:00:00 PDT Berlin-- From the start of the prolonged offstage drama that has been convulsing Berlin's opera world since the late 1990s, two inescapable and contradictory realities seemed ...

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’s three opera houses united to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall and open their seasons with a trio of new productions by Wagner, Offenbach and Meyerbeer Plenty of great ...

Berlin's three threatened opera houses have been saved by a government cash injection of 25m euros (£17m). The German Government had intended to give Berlin - which is struggling with debts of 46bn ...