Scion's 'Meistersinger' eagerly awaited
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A real-life drama of succession as riveting as any Richard Wagner opera is casting a shadow over this year's Bayreuth Festival, raising the anticipation level among devotees of the German master even before the first curtain rises Wednesday at the musical shrine he inaugurated 131 years ago.
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The 18th-Century German nun whose violent, mystical visions of Jews were the source of several controversial scenes in Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" is about to move a step closer to sainthood, ...
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Steven Soderbergh is hoping his black-and-white film-noir homage, "The Good German," will win over Europeans, after getting a cool response from U.S. critics.
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The German Opera's controversial production of Mozart's Idomeneo goes ahead despite protest fears.
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KASSEL, Germany (Der Spiegel) - In his first television interview, German cannibal Armin Meiwes describes the taste of human flesh, provides a decent recipe for steak, explains his fascination with the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel - and insists that he's a normal person. In his first television interview, broadcast Monday night on RTL TV, Meiwes, 46, looked relaxed and healthy as he spoke about his decades-long yearning to consume another man. The case came to light in December 2002, and the grisly details made world headlines. Meiwes filmed himself killing, disemboweling and cutting up the corpse of computer engineer Bernd Brandes, 42, whom he had met after posting messages in Internet chatrooms seeking "men for slaughter." Meiwes, a computer repair man, was originally sentenced to 8 1/2 years for manslaughter but that verdict was overturned by Germany's federal appeals court which deemed it too lenient and ordered him to be retried on a murder charge.  The judge ruled Meiwes had killed to satisfy his sexual urges. The court ruling means Meiwes could be eligible for parole after serving a mandatory 15 years in jail. "I sauteed the steak of Bernd, with salt, pepper, garlic and nutmeg. I had it with Princess croquettes, Brussels sprouts and a green pepper sauce," said Meiwes. He froze meal-sized portions of Brandes, some in the form of minced meat, and ate more than 20 kilograms of it in the months following the March 2001 killing. "The flesh tastes like pork, a little bit more bitter, stronger. It tastes quite good," he said.  He said that when he was a child, he enjoyed his mother reading him the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel," about a witch who traps two children and prepares to eat the boy. "The bit where Hansel is to be eaten was interesting. You wouldn't believe how many Hansels are whizzing around the Internet." Police estimate that around 10,000 people in Germany alone share Meiwes' fascination with cannibalism - either eating human flesh or being eaten. "He was close to me with every bite," Meiwes recalled, adding that Brandes had encouraged him to seek out other slaughter victims. "Bernd told me he didn't want to be on his own in the freezer for long," said Meiwes, who did indeed keep advertizing for fresh victims on the Internet until 18 months later, December 2002, when police arrested him after receiving a tip from a Web user.
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Even the fiercest secularist should find pleasure in Rinde Eckertâs engaging performance piece about Reinhold Niebuhr, the influential American theologian.
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The composer and musician shares his stylish essentials.
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Both films are hitting the marquee at the same time, on June 1.
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By Sally Vallongo, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 3--The Toledo Opera goes to great lengths to build tomorrow's audiences.
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It&#39;s never too soon to lobby for anything in this city, and Laura Meissner didn&#39;t wait for Wednesday&#39;s confirmation that the Montreal Expos are moving to the nation&#39;s
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The Moment's fragrance expert reviews a five-star masterpiece ...
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At last, good news about the stun-gun maker.
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Natalie Massenet of Net-a-porter.com canât wait to get a piece of RM.
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Like a beloved friend who faithfully comes to visit every few years, Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" has returned to the Metropolitan Opera, as welcome as ever even if beginning to show the effects of age.
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Two hot-button issues in Germany &#151; the Nazi era and Scientology &#151; are being pushed simultaneously by a new film in which Tom Cruise plays the country's most-famous anti-Hitler plotter, sparking controversy in Berlin.
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VAL D'ISERE, France  - As far as Hermann Maier is  concerned, the Alpine skiing season has yet to start.
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There should always be room at the Met for wonderfully old-fashioned productions like this production of Wagnerâs âMeistersinger von NÃ¼rnberg.â