The opera house in Kharkiv was almost destroyed and an undetonated Russian rocket can still be found on its roof. But after a long interruption, the ensemble is once again staging productions - in the ...

Opera can tell small, intimate tales as well as fill the vast canvases of Aida or Boris Godunov, but the acoustics of the ...

Italian composer Antonio Salieri wrote more than 40 operas, spent his life working for Habsburg royalty, and taught some of ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...

In Berlin, the director Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production dispenses with the opera’s final sextet and leads directly into ...

Look for the brick streets that have survived from the city’s early days. Lake Cherokee and Lake O’ the Pines offer cool relief from summer heat with swimming, fishing, and boating. The Great Texas ...

A violin built at the Dachau concentration camp by a Jewish inmate has revealed its hidden message 80 years later.

Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists. They’re oblivious to the ...