A performance of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" at this year's Bayreuth Festival was delayed on Thursday evening owing to torrential rain that flooded parts of the legendary <i>Festspielhaus</i> theatre.
Berlin and Dubai wouldn’t appear to have much in common at first glance. But a recent artists exchange is sign of increasing cultural ties between the two cities, writes <b>Arsalan Mohammad</b>.
UNESCO announced on Thursday night it will allow Dresden to keep its world heritage status, but said the eastern German city could lose the honour if it continues building a controversial bridge over the Elbe River.
Lost scenes from German-Austrian director Fritz Lang's legendary silent film "Metropolis" have been discovered in Argentina, German weekly newspaper <i>Die Zeit</i> reported on Wednesday.
The Bayreuth Festival, the prestigious annual event dedicated to the music of Richard Wagner, is to go online, organizers said Tuesday—but it will be pricey and tickets are limited.
Australian director Barry Kosky is to become the next director of Berlin’s <i>Komische Oper</i> opera house, according to culture radio station RBB on Tuesday.
Germany’s most important literature award, the Georg Büchner Prize, has been awarded this year to Austrian novelist Josef Winkler, the German Academy for Speech and Composition announced on Tuesday in Darmstadt.
<b>Barrie Kosky, the enfant terrible of Australia’s theatre scene, talks with David Wroe about his production of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate opening at Berlin’s Komische Oper on Saturday night.</b>
The president of German cultural institution <i>Akademie der Künste</i> Klaus Staeck has criticized a recent decision to take a popular Berlin multicultural radio station off air, calling it an “irresponsible rejection of cultural diversity.”
A German radio station is investigating whether the country's hope for the upcoming 2008 Eurovision Song Contest, band No Angels, has plagiarized their winning song.
