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 ...

Yuval Sharon is widely recognized as one of the opera world’s most influential figures. Founder of the Los Angeles opera company The Industry, Sharon has pioneered site-specific, immersive and ...

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.

To go to the opera in Berlin is to develop an acute sense for the tonalities of provocation. On the one hand the massive and often brutal interpretative interventions that mark so many operatic ...