Dallas Opera starts 2026-27 season with new general director David Lomelí. The season includes operas by Donizetti, Janáček, ...

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 ...

The composer Hans Pfitzner, born 140 years ago, remains a controversial figure even 60 years after his death. Not his music – an uncontroversially beautiful, high-romantic blend of Schumann and Wagner ...

Initially scheduled to conduct Verdi’s opera Don Carlo at the Bavarian State Opera this May, conductor Zubin Mehta has withdrawn from the performances for health reasons. Ivan Repusic, Chief Conductor ...

There are operas that survive their period, and others that somehow seem to grow into it. Aribert Reimann’s “Lear,” which ...

MUNICH, Oct. 28 óThis cityís love affair with opera, now more than 350 years old, has survived the fires that regularly razed 18th- and 19th-century theaters as well as regime changes, revolutions, ...

Zubin Mehta, who is currently music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, has canceled his engagements with Germany’s Bavarian State Opera for December and January for personal ...

Gaspare Spontini’s “La Vestale” occupies a curious position in operatic history: once enormously successful and today rarely ...

Decades ago, my co-manager visited Munich in southern Germany. While my memory of the specific streets and buildings visited ...

Looking for things to do in Dallas-Fort Worth this weekend? The State Fair of Texas opens, the Savannah Bananas come to Arlington, Oktoberfest celebrations fill North Texas and more events run ...

Every September, Munich holds the world's largest folk festival, Oktoberfest, drawing nearly six million visitors for two ...

The three-act ballet will be performed in Paphos on September 26, with Bolshoi Theatre dancers Igor Tsvirko and Kristina ...