The Washington Commanders have contingency plans in the event veteran linebacker Bobby Wagner leaves in free agency, but they would also welcome him back should he wish to rejoin them for a third year ...

Significant details are inevitably lost when a darkly lit production using the full dimensions of the Metropolitan Opera stage is viewed on a small screen. I was impressed by the austere grandeur of ...

‘I was not thinking of the Redeemer when I created Parsifal’, wrote Wagner. In ceremonial moments stage director Pierre Audi and his team – including artist Anish Kapoor as set designer – rightly ...

“So slow,” remarked an audience member as he exited the hall after Act I of Matthew Ozawa’s fanciful but rather guileless new production of Richard Wagner’s final opera. A soulful meditation on the ...

The other week I entered San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House at 6 p.m. and didn’t exit until almost midnight. I was there for an evening showing of “Parsifal,” a nearly five hour-long opera based ...

Even with people’s modern attention span suited mostly for 15-second Instagram reels, a five hour opera can still engage and dazzle you with its enriching performance. I can attest to that. The ...

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On occasion, an opera performance is so pitch-perfect, so theatrical, that the audience asks for more when the final curtain descends. That's what happened at Saturday's opening of San Francisco Opera ...

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 ...

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 ...