2004-03-08 04:00:00 PDT Berlin-- From the start of the prolonged offstage drama that has been convulsing Berlin's opera world since the late 1990s, two inescapable and contradictory realities seemed ...

Two decades after German reunification, Berlin is home to a unique cultural landscape boasting three publicly supported opera houses. Long live the excess. On any given weekend, opera-goers in Berlin ...

Kirsten Harms is in a fighting mood. Her city has perhaps the richest opera scene in the world -- three major companies, something that's almost unheard of. But Harms, general manager of the Deutsche ...

Opera thrives on competition as much as collaboration—on who can sing higher, louder, longer, more passionately; what production can seduce or scandalize most abundantly; which company can hoard the ...