On occasion, an opera performance is so pitch-perfect, so theatrical, that the audience asks for more when the final curtain ...

San Francisco Opera's "Parsifal" shimmers with beauty and bold staging, trading Wagner's mysticism for visual wonder and ...

Eun Sun Kim, who is preparing to lead the San Francisco Opera in a new production "Parsifal," reveals her bold artistry and ...

Visionary director Matthew Ozawa was inspired by a lesser-known Wagnerian influence in this unique staging of the iconic tale ...

San Francisco Opera's new production of Richard Wagner's PARSIFAL runs from October 25 through November 13 on the War ...

Wagner is difficult to appreciate: His operas are far too dense and much too long to be easily accessible. I don’t mean that the plot is a mess or that the music is inherently chaotic. It’s more ...

Robin Ticciati and the London Philharmonic Orchestra are back with an "enthralling 'Parsifal' that is well paced, beautifully balanced and with a palpable feel for Wagner's many-layered, floating ...

Directing Opera North’s first-ever performance of the work, Sam Brown’s approach has avoided getting it mired too deep in the philosophy and restricted himself to a handful of bold touches in the ...

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IT is the purpose of this paper to give the impression made by the performance of Parsifal at Baireuth, last summer, in view of certain strictures upon the motive of the drama, and without any attempt ...