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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You all know by now – well some of you may know, and a few of you will have been there too – just how outstanding English National Opera's revival of Nikolaus Lehnhoff's staging of Wagner's Parsifal ...

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 ...

Seventeen years ago, the Theatre Royal in Norwich became a place of pilgrimage for Wagnerians when the Norwegian National Opera presented its Ring cycle there for a brief season. Now the theatre is ...

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 ...

Jonas Kaufmann sings the title role in The Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Parsifal" which airs on PBS Sunday, July 28 at 12 p.m. (check local listings). Italian maestro Daniele Gatti conducts ...

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 ...

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) ...

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