Did Humperdinck have any of this in mind, I wonder? And did an Opera Australia still lacking an Artistic Director need to ...

The other week I entered San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House at 6 p.m. and didn’t exit until almost midnight. I was there for an evening showing of “Parsifal,” a nearly five hour-long opera based ...

Even with people’s modern attention span suited mostly for 15-second Instagram reels, a five hour opera can still engage and dazzle you with its enriching performance. I can attest to that. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

First seen on the Green Hill in 2023, the director of “Parsifal,” 55-year-old Jay Scheib, professor of music and theatre arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an American of ...

Since 1951, when Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner started putting Grandfather Richard’s operas into modern dress, Bavaria’s Bayreuth Festival has attracted more attention for its sets than for its singers.

Beyond philosophy, personal and social factors such as the influence of Cosima and Wagner's religious turn lit the spark of one of the most famous ruptures in art. The link between the young ...

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 ...