The northern German city of Hamburg plans to build a new opera house in the Hafencity district near the port with backing ...

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Those who frequent downtown Wilmington can tell you that The Grand is more than a collection of theaters: The Grand Opera House (Copeland Hall), the baby grand, and, as of 2015, The Playhouse on ...

When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...

It was nicely appropriate that one of the ovations on first night should be for conductor Jakub Hrusa, who was making his maiden appearance as the new music director of the Royal Opera House.

Guth’s symbolic, psychologically probing production seems more potent than ever with Hrusa at the helm. The musical directorship of the Royal Opera is, on this showing, in safe hands.

This revival of Janáček’s earliest operatic masterpiece marks the first occasion on which Jakub Hrůša has conducted the Royal Opera following the announcement of his appointment as Antonio ...

It connects central Hamburg to the southern side of the river. Opened in 1911, the tunnel was built to serve the port and shipyard workers as a connecting route between the Landungsbrücken and ...

Germany’s wealthiest individual, billionaire Klaus-Michael Kühne, has donated approximately $308 million (€300 million) to the Hamburg Opera, providing funding for the creation of a new opera house ...

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.