BERLINBERLIN — Daniel Barenboim on Friday announced his resignation as the general music director of Berlin’s Staatsoper, a job that he has held for over three decades, saying that his health has ...

A general view shows the construction site of the Staatsoper Berlin (Berlin State Opera) in Berlin, November 5, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (Reuters) - The American architect Frank Gehry will be the ...

FILE - Conductor Christian Thielemann, front, gestures during the traditional New Year's concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Golden Hall of Vienna's Musikverein in Vienna, Austria on ...

After seven years of renovation, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden has celebrated its reopening with a free Beethoven concert conducted by Daniel Barenboim. The restoration of the Berlin Staatsoper ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. How is this actually possible? How can the leading opera house of the German capital open its season with something ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There have been a number of spectacularly awful Fidelio productions in Berlin over the years. Did Beethoven write an ...