BAYREUTH, Germany—Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock guided his performers to a fresh interpretation of “Tannhauser,” but Director Sebastian Baumgarten delivered ...

Sandro Botticelli's painting,'Pallas and the Centaur' depicts a strong woman restraining a centaur. This painting is an image ...

Painter Johann Overbeck's painting,'Italia and Germania" is a peaceful scene of opposites coexisting.

The Chinese calendar is also known as the Yin or Xia calendar, the Moon Calendar.

Four-time line dance champion Enrico Adler says, "Line dance is for everybody."

This is the last month to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Pressure on GDR leaders reached its utmost extent in Nov. 1989, yet downfall of the wall itself came ...

Thousands of Berliners lined up on Oct. 17 as the Neues Museum reopened after 70 years.

Reveling the work of a Hermann Kaulbach sketch.

Usually Bayreuth is a just a town in Northern Bavaria—normal life and people. Then the Wagner Festival starts

If humankind weren't reigned by feelings and emotion, this little symbol wouldn't have conquered the world.

Walpurgis Night, known in northern European countries as Beltane, takes place on the night of April 30th.

tulips were not always that cheap and easy to get. This innocent spring flower looks back on a ...

Recognized for its exotic sound, the dizi, better known to the West as the Chinese bamboo flute.

Nobody dies and at the end the characters simply return to their previous lives—can this be a Puccini ...

The suona often takes on the lead role and adds to the Divine Performing Arts Orchestra's distinctive Chinese ...

'I was glad to see the religious aspect plus the reinforcement of heaven or the belief in something ...

'I thought it was beautiful, the way how the women used their hand and feet in unison.'

Among the audience that watched the Divine Performing Arts show on New Years Eve in Pasadena Civic Auditorium ...

The Gold Award for the first Chinese International Figure Painting Competition went to a piece of great expression.

A small woman with erhu, a tiny bowed instrument, enthralls an entire audience.

“Good colors, good costumes, and everybody smiling! It's good energy and good atmosphere! Not only the artists were ...

Divine Performing Arts launched its 2009 World Tour in Philadelphia on Friday night, December 19 at the historic ...

The painting “Dignity” by Xi Qiang won a bronze award at the first International Chinese Figure Painting Competition.

Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson star in Massenet's story of sacred and unhallowed love at the Metropolitan Opera.

Joseph Pulitzer said that “newspapers should have no friends” but that did not always refer to editors who ...

With his impressive yet meaningful picture 'Suffering in China' artist Li Yuan won the Gold Award.