Claudius becomes Roman Emperor on the assassination of his nephew Caligula by the Praetorian Guard. 1121: Henry I marries ...

The Bucharest National Opera announced the news via social ... The soprano also performed at the Sofia Opera & Ballet House in Bulgaria and headlined tours in countries such as the United Kingdom, ...

By the time he was 21 he was conducting at the Leipzig Opera House; at 29 he was general manager of the Bucharest Opera. In 1944, the Nazis interned both Jonel and his writer wife for refusing to ...

The Bucharest National Opera Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Jinga ... with the L'altra Europa-Edizioni ETS Publishing House will present, on January 16, the volume Emersioni sceniche.

What is the significance of the quince tree in the book’s title? Necula: The quince tree in the garden of my Bucharest house was my playmate. After discovering opera, I began enacting scenes from ...

The Bucharest National Opera brings to the stage on February 8 at 6:30 PM the premiere of the ballet “Cinderella” by Sergei Prokofiev, an emotional story about the triumph of good, the power of true ...

To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took the stage with Syria's national symphony orchestra, marking the first classical ...

It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house opened in Paris. Today, it is still a working theater — with 172 ...

Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” in which a ...

Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over ...

The next instalment in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is Oslo Opera House, a Snøhetta-designed project that pioneered the concept of architecture as landscape.