A German Opera Spotlights the Refugee Crisis, With Refugees 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 ...

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The stereotype with opera is that productions are sung in Italian and are tragic. Well, that's not so with every opera. "Die Fledermaus," aka "The Bat," is a hilarious German comedy that is delivered ...

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 ...

BERLIN, Dec. 18 -- Just before the curtain dropped on an otherwise uneventful opera, the grisly scene that everyone came to see finally transpired. The King of Crete pulled the severed head of the ...

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 ...

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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 ...