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 ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Richard Wagner's last opera, PARSIFAL, is a tough nut to crack. With its highly religious overtones, lack of action and incredible length (it ran about 5 hours 40 minutes the other night), it's not ...

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 ...

He had just seen an embargo-busting Parsifal in Monte Carlo in January 1913 (with widow Cosima present) and sat in a side box without sightlines. He would have enjoyed his compatriot Valery Gergiev’s ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Parsifal, by Wagner Opera Australia. Opera House Concert Hall. August 9 ★★★★★* In assembling a cast as close to ideal as one could ...

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 ...

Bayreuth stage director Uwe Eric Laufenberg talks about festival scandals and his production on opening day, July 25. "Parsifal" is particularly interesting in times of widespread religious ...

Instead you can enjoy what Stravinsky called “the great art of Wagner from the direct source of that greatness and not through the medium of pygmies swarming around the stage”. This was a level-headed ...