A German Opera Spotlights the Refugee Crisis, With Refugees MUNICH — “We tell the story of Moses because it is actually our story,” one teenager, a refugee from Afghanistan by way of Iran, said in the ...

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 ...

BERLIN, Dec. 18 -- Just before the curtain dropped on an otherwise uneventful opera, the grisly scene that everyone came to see finally transpired. The King of Crete pulled the severed head of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Performance star Florentina Holzinger stands before the start of a rehearsal in a rehearsal room at the Mecklenburg State Theater.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Opera singer and ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A Nazi-themed staging of a Wagner opera in Germany that caused some members of the audience to become sick with its scenes of murder and a gas chamber has been withdrawn, the opera ...