Christie’s, which values the work at more than $1 million, said the proceeds from any sale would be shared with the heirs of an art collector killed in a concentration camp.

As “Göring’s man in Paris,” Lohse was “ruthless” in his quest to acquire artworks, said Petropoulos. An opportunist, he ...

One of the busiest stage directors in Europe is fully arriving, at last, with “The Threepenny Opera” this spring.

"Opera teaches us that creativity knows no bounds, and that passion and dedication can transform any story into something extraordinary. May we all learn to express ourselves with the same depth and ...

Painting miniatures is a good, chill time. Since I picked the hobby back up in 2017 I’ve spent hundreds of hours away from my screens, listening to good music and great podcasts. And ...

while an actress and dancer makes her directorial debut at the Minnesota Opera, bringing the 1962 children’s book “The Snowy Day” to life. Hand-carved ice sculptures at the Minneapolis Institute of ...

The exhibition Poetry of the Ornament at the Leopold Museum shows a representative selection of exhibits from the Backhausen Archive to a broad public for the first time.

OperaWire’s initial introduction to a collaboration piece by Prestini and Herrera, “Con Alma,” made this premiere feel extra exciting and revolutionary in ways that opera as an art form continues to ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

There's something odd about Vienna and the Austrians ... though not unwilling, amalgamation with Hitler's Germany in the Anschluss of March 1938 to its occupation by the Red Army in 1945, a ruined ...

This episode was originally broadcast on Nov. 1, 2024. The six months leading up to Adolf Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933 included efforts to stop his appointment as chancellor of Germany. A new ...

Arizona Opera could have one of its fullest houses since the pandemic on Saturday for its one and only Tucson performance of Puccini’s “La Bohéme” as it opens its 2024-25 Main Stage series.