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 ...

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 ...

— I echo most emphatically the Warning Voice lifted up by a member of the Club at our last meeting. When the German opera was first introduced into America, there was no limit to the enthusiasm of the ...

His works, which were radically individual, were among the most celebrated of the late 20th and early 21st century. By A.J. Goldmann A.J. Goldmann is an American journalist who writes about European ...

If you want to make a career as an opera singer, Germany, with 80 opera houses, is one of the best places to go. While mastering the German language can be tricky, a unique course at Middlebury ...

THIS, as the admen might tell you, is a chamber-music year. The Lener Quartet arrives from Hungary and gets as much attention as a new dramatic soprano at the Metropolitan. More, I should add, because ...

They were the cast of “Moses,” a feel-good yet sobering new production by the Bavarian State Opera’s youth program, written for refugees, children of immigrants and born-and-raised Bavarians. Others ...

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 ...