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 ...

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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 ...

San Francisco Opera Music Director Eun Sun Kim is deep in her Wagner era and thriving. After dazzling audiences with 2023's sinuously propulsive "Lohengin" and an emotionally wrenching 2024 "Tristan ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ultimate anguish: John Relyea as Gurnemanz, Audun Iversen as Amfortas, Daniel Johansson as Parsifal and Kristina Starek as Kundry Besides, Mijnssen doesn't really allow Relyea much dramatic agency ...