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 ...

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 ...

Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Parsifal,” at the San Francisco Opera.

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — A giant swan sailed into auditorium and crashed, felled by a huge arrow still protruding. Flowers burst into bloom, radiant in red and green, pink and blue. In the theater ...

IT is the purpose of this paper to give the impression made by the performance of Parsifal at Baireuth, last summer, in view of certain strictures upon the motive of the drama, and without any attempt ...

Echoes of a 19th-century fable of compassion in the stories of 21st-century women. [ opera ] Arash is a Tehrani musician. He lives alone in a cold, empty three-story building in the north of the ...

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 ...

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The 2023 Bayreuth Festival started on Monday, July 24, and runs through Monday, August 28. This annual celebration of composer Richard Wagner used to have a ten-year waiting list for tickets. I ...

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 ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — A giant swan sailed into auditorium and crashed, felled by a huge arrow still protruding. Flowers burst into bloom, radiant in red and green, pink and blue. In the theater ...