Wagner's enrapturing romantic music runs the risk of being stifling – even narcissistic. So I find it fascinating that in his final opera, Wagner turns his obsession on its head: in Parsifal (1880) ...

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Ever since the 1882 premiere of Richard Wagner’s final stage work, “Parsifal,” at the composer’s custom-built opera house in Bayreuth, Germany, performers have wrestled mightily with the problems ...

Langridge, who along with the present design team has done fine work on the powerful myth of Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur, is no doubt right to insist so much on grail celebrant Amfortas’s ...

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On occasion, an opera performance is so pitch-perfect, so theatrical, that the audience asks for more when the final curtain descends. That's what happened at Saturday's opening of San Francisco Opera ...

San Francisco Opera's new production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal runs from October 25 through November 13 on the War Memorial Opera House stage, directed by Matthew Ozawa. Company Chorus Director ...

As part of San Francisco Opera's 103rd season, Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts Richard Wagner’s Parsifal from October 25 through November 13. Wagner’s enigmatic final work returns ...

You know that Wagner was Hitler’s favorite composer? I think the opera he really liked was Meistersinger. This one is a five-hour sit without (as Mark Twain noted) any good tunes for the vocalists.

A portmanteau of Otto Wagner visuals and works of his Viennese Secession friends, the Vienna State Opera’s Parsifal is often gorgeous to look at, and offers nothing to remember, except that vague ...

The first night audience for this revival of Parsifal gave Bernard Haitink a warm welcome back to the Royal Opera House, five years after he relinquished the post of Music Director. It was an apt ...