Two conductors — a mentor and a protégé, both trained as pianists — bring precision and lyricism to the first new staging of Wagner’s epic in a decade.

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 ...

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Having pursued standard Italian repertoire in its first decade, the company caught the Wagner bug in 2013, mounting a concert performance of Rienzi to coincide with Opera Australia’s first Ring Cycle.

The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. Aug. 29—JBissett @DominionPost.com If you're so inclined, you could say Rich Rodriguez's bitter departure from ...

For the first time in two decades, out side producers have been making their mark on the Festspielhaus, the Wagner family’s private preserve in the 12th century town of Bayreuth. Richard Wag ner ...

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BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Less than 41 hours after his final bows for singing the title role of “Lohengrin” at Munich's Bavarian State Opera, Piotr Beczała was 150 miles (241 kilometers) away at the ...