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 ...

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Musically, the production is a triumph on all counts. The lead singers are a testament to the German Fest system: a world-class cast drawn almost entirely from salaried employees of the company Ian ...

Parsifal was Wagner's last opera and lasts more than five hours. As well as demanding huge stamina from the singers, however, this production gave the audience more problems than usual in following a ...

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 ...

Spoiler warnings are usually surplus to requirements in Parsifal. The staging which opened at Glyndebourne on Saturday, however, offers much to surprise, provoke and often enlighten anyone ready to ...