Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soprano Nola Richardson as Hildegard von Bingen in the Los Angleles Opera premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider's "Hildegard" at the ...

In the granite-lined Gothic courtyard of Eibingen Convent in the verdant Rhine River Valley, a group of nuns stand in the chill air of autumn as snowflakes swirl through the open cloisters, sing ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The end is nigh at the start of “Vision — From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen.” A group of Christian believers huddles in a dark, stone dwelling awaiting ...

Pope Benedict XIV has indicated he plans to canonize the 12th-century female composer, mystic, author, physician and abbess Hildegard von Bingen and then proclaim her a Doctor of the Church in October ...

Who: With Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung. Written and directed by Margarethe von Trotta. Rated: Not rated. Running time: 111 minutes. Language: German ...

There's a strangely retro feel to Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen-- and not just because its subject is a 12th-century nun famous for being called from above to light up the dark ages ...

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It’s hard to muster more than curious indifference to Margarethe von Trotta’s “Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen.” The film’s feminist themes and strong female protagonist are elements ...

When walking into the Pit to see Hildegard von Bingen, I was struck by how similar it was to a church. The benches are set up in rows facing a central aisle, which is blocked with see-through fabric.

Opera has housed a long and curious fetish for the convent. Around a century ago, composers couldn’t get enough of lustful, visionary nuns. Although relatively tame next to what was to follow, Puccini ...