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 ...
As part of San Francisco Opera's 103rd season, Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts Richard Wagner’s Parsifal from October 25 through November 13. Wagner’s enigmatic final work returns ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brian Mulligan as Amfortas, center, in San Francisco Opera's new production of "Parsifal" by Richard Wagner. (Cory Weaver/San ...
The concert performance of Wagner’s opera can be welcomed as an occasion to make time for a transcendent experience. Jonas Kaufmann portrayed the title character of Wagner's Parsifal in a 2013 ...
The orchestra here was committed and well into the style of the music. But there were no miracles – you couldn’t forget for long that this was an amateur ensemble. Tuning in the woodwinds would ...
There used to be an ad campaign from a New York bakery company, "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's rye bread." Well, a similar statement could be made about Richard Wagner's final opera (or ...
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 ...
Many productions of Wagner’s final work for the stage tend to play down the Christian elements, replacing them instead with a range of disparate visual metaphor. These sometimes allude to Wagner’s ...