Koutaiba Al Rahmoon tap-dances across the stage in cut-off trousers and a kitsch Christmas jumper. The Syrian drama student had never performed before coming to Europe. Four years later, he’s ...

THIS, as the admen might tell you, is a chamber-music year. The Lener Quartet arrives from Hungary and gets as much attention as a new dramatic soprano at the Metropolitan. More, I should add, because ...

It is considered the "most German" of Richard Wagner's operas. Adolf Hitler used the work for his propaganda purposes. Productions of Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" divide audiences.

Italian opera --French opera --English opera --German opera -- Italian oratorio --French church music --Italian church music -- English church music --German church cantata (1) --Germana passion music ...

For the past 35 years of attending classical music concerts in Vacaville and the greater Bay Area, I’ve heard a lot of music, particularly German Romantic-era music from the early to late 19th century ...