It was a sight that would have given Genghis Khan second thoughts: a battalion of armed policemen behind barriers, amidst It was a sight that would have given Genghis Khan second thoughts: a battalion ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The ultra-exclusive Salzburg Festival is to reach out to a wider audience this year by webcasting one of its opera performances for the ...

Joana Mallwitz is making waves in the classical music world, even during a pandemic. Her debut at the Salzburg Festival is a career highlight. Few in the classical music world are currently receiving ...

Yes, opera—or something very like the opera we remember from the pre-social distancing era that ended five months ago—is returning to Europe. Currently the art form is on display at a curtailed and ...

Gerard Mortier, who died of cancer on Saturday at age 70, is being widely eulogized for the incalculable role he played in the opera world in the years he headed opera companies in Brussels, Paris and ...

Along with its brilliant revivals of Mozart and Richard Strauss, the Salzburg Festival likes to present new operas by contemporary composers. But again and again, the living composers sound less alive ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The world premiere of an opera composed by Gyorgy Kurtag based on Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” has been delayed a year until 2014. The Salzburg Festival said Wednesday that it will be ...

SALZBURG Austria (Reuters) - The Berlin-born Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon left behind a body of watercolors and text she called "Life? or Theatre?" before she was killed at Auschwitz in 1943 at age ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There was almost no set to speak of on stage in Salzburg’s Grosses Festspielhaus, and the small cast of Così Fan Tutte wore ...

During World War I, a poet, a composer and a director had a common dream — and out of it came what was to become arguably the world's most prestigious arts festival ...