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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NIGHTS (AND AFTERNOONS) AT THE OPERA / This is the 10th in a season-long series about the works the Metropolitan Opera will present during its 2012-13 "The Met: Live in HD" series in local movie ...

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, ...

A sublime performance, stripped of Christian references, of a totally involving if problematic opera The Royal Opera has waited until almost the end of the Wagner bicentenary year to make its ...

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 ...

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) ...