LONDON (Reuters) - Frankfurt Opera was crowned the world's best opera company on Monday at the inaugural International Opera Awards which were set up to promote opera to a wider audience as it ...

Add in a dash romance and a pinch of the opera world intrigue, and you have got yourself a page-turner. In Pamela Cramer's new book, "Murder at the Frankfurt Opera," the reader will not only go on ...

The lead singers are a testament to the German Fest system: a world-class cast drawn almost entirely from salaried employees of the company Ian Koziara as Parsifal and Nicholas Brownlee as Amfortas ...

Frankfurt is the financial capital of Germany, but if you think it’s all business and no play there, let’s disabuse you of that notion right now. This city of more than 700,000 people has ...

In his new production for the Frankfurt Opera, Guth digs deep and strikes gold. Superficially unrelated, Puccini’s three one-act tales do indeed all deal with death, and all play out in ...

A dancer of the Beijing Opera performs at a show at the Frankfurt book fair October 14, 2009. The world's largest book fair with its focal theme on China's literature will run till October 18 in ...

The Met’s monumental, literal-minded “Aida” has accustomed me not to think too much about Verdi’s final grand opera; the team in Chemnitz goes considerably deeper. Erfurt’s operatic ...

By Joshua Barone The start was typical: Oper Frankfurt in Germany asked John ... because it was written for a grand opera house. But successive commissions were smaller: The cast of 19 singers ...