At Carnegie Hall, Weimar Is Irresistible but Vaguely Defined
Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory.
Vienna Volksoper Pushes Boundaries With Its ‘Threepenny Opera’
Starting with “The Threepenny Opera,” the Volksoper in Vienna is reconsidering a series of works and inviting audiences to join the discussion.
Read Your Way Through Berlin
The German author Daniel Kehlmann, most recently of the novel “Tyll,” recommends books that explore the city’s painful past and dynamic present.