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 ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German opera house whose ballet director smeared dog excrement on the face of a critic prompting a police investigation has parted ways with the man with immediate effect.

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 ...

The premiere of Kevin Puts' newly revised work pulsates with power from such singers as Sylvia D'Eramo and Miles Mykkanen as well as the clever staging.

Aribert Reimann, whose powerful operas based on works by William Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, Federico Garcia Lorca and others made him one of the most significant opera composers of the late 20th and ...