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Official Europe was gathering at Frankfurt's stately Alte Oper concert hall for a party to honor Mr. Trichet's retirement as ECB head.

Deepening Crisis Over Euro Pits Leader Against Leader Marcus Walker 2011

Deutsche Oper Berlin stages a concert version of this Sri Lanka-set tale of a friendship challenged by the love for the same woman, featuring Étienne Dupuis, Patrizia Ciofi and Joseph Calleja.

What's On Around Europe 2011

Deutsche Oper musical director Donald Runnicles led the orchestra in a dramatically urgent reading of the score that helped inject some drama into this curiously inert production.

Berlin Boos an Inert and Ugly 'Tristan' A. J. Goldmann 2011

Some of Mr. Bieito's most controversial productions, like his 2004 staging of Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio" at Berlin's Komische Oper, depict almost unwatchable scenes of brutality.

Calixto Bieito's Second Act J. S. Marcus 2011

Ken Howard/Metropolitan Oper Does Miranda keep saying the word because men are falling for her?

Many Wonderful Moments 2011

In late November, at Berlin's Komische Oper, East Berlin wunderkind Sebastian Baumgarten, who trained with several of East Germany's opera elite, will direct "Carmen" for the first time Nov. 27-July 4.

Packing in the Performances 2011

The Long Island Summer Lounge erected by Greek restaurateur Nikos Gatzias atop Deutsche Börse's seven-story parking garage in Frankfurt's city center offers the after-work crowd a place to mix and mingle, or to even take a dip in the pool, while soaking in Frankfurt's skyline and its neoclassical Alte Oper.

Rooftop Terraces Are Raising the Bar Rhea Wessel 2011

The 2011-12 season marks the end of an era at Theater Basel's opera company, where German director Dietmar Schwarz is set to begin his final season before leaving to take over Berlin's struggling second house, the Deutsche Oper.

Packing in the Performances 2011

"He is one of the nicest people," says American soprano Maureen McKay, who premiered the role of Blanche de la Force in Mr. Bieito's staging of Poulenc's "The Dialogues of the Carmelites" this summer at Berlin's Komische Oper.

Calixto Bieito's Second Act J. S. Marcus 2011