San Francisco Opera will present Richard Strauss' ELEKTRA, led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim, in Keith Warner's contemporary ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since 1951, when Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner started putting Grandfather Richard’s operas into modern dress, Bavaria’s Bayreuth Festival has attracted more attention for its sets than for its singers.

Robin Ticciati and the London Philharmonic Orchestra are back with an "enthralling 'Parsifal' that is well paced, beautifully balanced and with a palpable feel for Wagner's many-layered, floating ...

Dmitri Tcherniakov’s uncompromising staging of Wagner’s final, greatest work remains as unsettling and thought-provoking as when it was first unveiled a decade ago. Now revived at the Berlin ...

On Richard Wagner’s Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival. When the technology was new last year, its novelty was intriguing and seemed to offer a pathbreaking medium for advancing operatic production ...

Once upon a time, Easter season meant the arrival of a new "Parsifal." Sony's splendid new "Parsifal," under the leadership of out conductor Philippe Jordan, illuminates the largely interior drama in ...