Three thoughts on the Rio Olympics opening ceremony: 1. The creative team for Rio’s opening ceremony set a goal of changing the paradigm from previous Olympic ceremonies—specifically, scaling ...

The Olympic flag is raised during the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony on Friday, August 5, 2016. Much of the performance centered on Brazil's evolution from early indigenous peoples to the colonization ...

Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics: TV Review Director Fernando Mereilles and his team delivered a sobering call to address global warming and deforestation cloaked in a stirring multicultural ...

Everything you need to know for Friday's Opening Ceremony at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Commentary: Zika, polluted water, economic crises, the threat of terrorism -- with so many concerns swirling around the Olympics, Rio staged opening ceremonies that refected the human condition.

Friday night's Olympic opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro provides the official start to 16 days of competition that will see the world's best athletes competing for the gold. Athletes from 206 ...

The Rio 2016 Olympics kick off in style with the opening ceremony at the iconic Maracana stadium. Let the Games begin… ...

Samba stars, abstract performances and Gisele Bundchen. New York Times reporters and photographers detailed the opening ceremony as it happened.

Ahtletes and volunteers look on as children run with bird kites during the Rio Olympics 2016 opening ceremony at Maracana Stadium.

The crowd roared when Bundchen sashayed from one side of the 78,000-seat Maracana Stadium to the other during Friday's opening ceremony for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

The Rio 2016 Olympics kick off in style with the opening ceremony at the iconic Maracana stadium. Let the Games begin… ...