Berlin Philharmonic to tour Japan for first time with Rattle
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The Berlin Philharmonic and British conductor Simon Rattle will set off on a tour of Japan this weekend, the orchestra said.
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The European Centre for the Arts Hellerau in Dresden is planning the first-ever complete staging of Karlheinz Stockhausen's monumental &quot;Licht&quot; cycle in 2008, festival chief Udo Zimmermann said.
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A historical epic starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Joseph Fiennes will open this year's Berlin Film Festival.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Playing loud and loose like they had never been away, the Police kicked off their first world tour in more than 20 years on Monday, delivering a two-hour set for 20,000 fans in Canada.
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China's Cao Gangchuan begins a visit to Japan, the first by a Chinese defence minister in over nine years.
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Martin Scorsese's documentary on veteran British rock band the Rolling Stones will open the Berlin Film Festival this year, organizers said on Tuesday, with the Oscar-winning director and the band making an appearance.
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The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the city's 250th birthday with a 13-concert, six-country tour of Europe early next year.
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A concert by the New York Philharmonic  in North Korea next week that officials say could break  cultural boundaries and draw the two countries closer will be  broadcast throughout the reclusive Communist state.
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A British audience will be the first in  nearly 300 years Friday to hear a series of arias by Italian  composer Antonio Vivaldi, which were recently found at a castle  in western England.
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The Halle Orchestra, one of Great Britain's oldest symphony orchestras, has not toured the United States in more than a decade, so spirits were high when the group secured dates at Lincoln Center and in Upstate New York for performances last winter.
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The New York's Philharmonic Orchestra's historic North Korea concert is to be televised.
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COLOMBO: Berlin is ready to promote tourism and push for debt relief and free access to European markets to help tsunami-battered Sri Lanka get back on its feet, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said on ...
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Part of a previously unknown piano concerto by Beethoven will be given its premiere in Rotterdam.
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On the heels of plans by the New York Philharmonic to perform in North Korea comes word that the 120-member North Korea State Symphony Orchestra is to play two concerts in England. The Guardian of London reported that after three years of planning and organizing, that orchestra will perform in September at the Royal Festival Hall in London and in Middlesbrough in northeast England. The visit was described as the âbrainchildâ of the opera singer Suzannah Clarke, who, in 2003, became the first British singer to perform in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. The newspaper said that she had suggested that her hosts invite other foreign musicians to North Korea and send its orchestra abroad. Ms. Clarke comes from Middlesbrough.
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A newly reconstructed version of 1925 Soviet film Battleship Potemkin will be shown at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Germany will welcome U.S. entertainer  Barbra Streisand with open arms when she performs at Berlin&#39;s  Waldbuehne arena on Saturday, her first appearance in the  country after turning down several invitations in the past.
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Salzburg, Austria, which was the host for Mozartâs 250th-birthday celebrations in 2006, will commemorate the 100th birthday of another famous native son, the conductor Herbert von Karajan, above. The festivities will begin with a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic on Saturday at the Grosses Festspielhaus hall in Salzburg, Agence France-Presse reported. The orchestra, which von Karajan conducted from 1955 until his death in 1989, will also play in Berlin, Paris and Tokyo, and there will be a Karajan Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, among other festivities in 2008. The birthday itself, on April 5, will be honored with a ceremony in the Mozart House museum in Salzburg. Von Karajan joined the Nazi Party in 1935, a move that greatly helped his career until he fled Germany for Milan in 1944. He was the favorite conductor of Hermann Goering, Hitlerâs second in command. After the war the Allies banned him from conducting. The ban was lifted in 1947.