Not five minutes after the curtain rises on the San Francisco Opera's radiantly beautiful new production of Wagner's "Parsifal," director Matthew Ozawa offers the audience a single unforgettable stage ...

In Wagner’s final opera Parsifal, the title character played in this Houston Grand Opera production by tenor Russell Thomas (in a role debut) undertakes a quest to reclaim a Holy Spear. Parsifal, who ...

I don’t think I’m too far off the mark to say that Parsifal (1882), Richard Wagner’s final opera, is on no one’s list of most favorite Wagner works. While it contains some of his most sublime music, ...

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 ...

Richard Wagner’s enigmatic, transcendent swan song, “Parsifal,” is an opera about the Holy Grail that has taken on certain Grail-like qualities of its own. Confronting the end of his life, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

On January 19, 2024, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will open Parsifal, Wagner's final masterpiece, in a stunning, colorful production directed by John Caird, with HGO Principal Guest Conductor Eun Sun Kim ...

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.

As we head into March, the Emmy ® and Peabody award-winning “The Met: Live in HD” series is in full swing in U.S. cinemas for a seventh season featuring 12 live operas from the Metropolitan Opera’s ...