Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daniel Barenboim, general music director of the Berlin State Opera and the Staatskapelle Berlin, adresses a news conference about ...

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When Verdi’s Nabucco was first performed in 1842, Milanese audiences were quick to see their own situation under Austrian occupation reflected in the plot, a loose adaptation of the Biblical story of ...

Hansel and Gretel caused a mild stir at the refurbished Staatsoper Unter den Linden, but the real fireworks came from Daniel Barenboim’s superb Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra Children, hardly a ...