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 ...

Hollywood actor Timothée Chalamet has been invited to attend an opera or ballet in Germany in the hope of changing his mind after he controversially said that people are no longer interested in 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BERLIN (Reuters) - The German opera house whose ballet director smeared dog excrement on the face of a critic prompting a police ...

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 ...

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 ...