Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Puccini balances on a knife’s edge between kitsch and melodrama. It is hard to get right. And much-feted ...

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 ...

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BERLIN'S population is less than half that of London, yet the city has three opera houses, from its days of division when Berlin State Opera and Komische Opera Berlin were situated in DDR-dominated ...

Italian conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli died after suffering a heart attack while conducting Berlin's Deutsche Opera in a performance of Verdi's Aida, the opera announced. He was 54. Sinopoli was at his ...

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