8 stories by "lisa Contag"
Star conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim has started a new YouTube channel. In his introductory video, the renowned musician, who currently serves as the General Music Director of the Ber…
Following the mass shooting in a Munich shopping center last week, the Bavarian State Opera and its partner BMW Group have cancelled their "Opera for All" live-stream of Richard Wagner's "Di…
St. Johannes Evangelist Kirche in Berlin's gallery district Auguststraße will host a special event for the next nine weeks: "Osmodrama," a festival dedicated to "olfactory art" " yes: sce…
There is perhaps no other genre in film that reveals as much about an era's style and mindset, its dreams, fears and hopes for the future as Science Fiction. In its new special exhibition "T…
With two weeks to go before the Bayreuth premiere of "Parsifal," German conductor Hartmut Haenchen has been named the replacement to Latvian star Andris Nelsons, who abruptly resigned.The ap…
Berlin is celebrating a Summer of William Kentridge this July. Next to a retrospective of the South African artist's oeuvre at Martin-Gropius-Bau, the Berliner Festspiele has organized a two…
Twenty-five international art world professionals have joined forces to back Tate Modern director Chris Dercon in his position as appointed director of Berlin's Volksbühne theater.In a lett…
"The Salesman" ("Forushande") by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi received the Arri/ Osram Award for Best International Film at the 34th International Munich Film Festival last weekend. The F…