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 ...

Wagner is difficult to appreciate: His operas are far too dense and much too long to be easily accessible. I don’t mean that the plot is a mess or that the music is inherently chaotic. It’s more ...

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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 ...

The Holy Grail, the cup that Christ used at the Last Supper, and the spear used to pierce the side of Christ at Crucifixion are prominent symbols in "Parsifal," libretto and music by Richard Wagner ...

As part of San Francisco Opera's 103rd season, Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts Richard Wagner’s Parsifal ...

But both Simon McBurney’s production of The Magic Flute at English National Opera and now Stephen Langridge’s unleavened Royal Opera Parsifal suggest that these are sects not worth joining or saving.

It’s been said that more has been written about Richard Wagner than anybody who’s ever lived, except for Jesus Christ. Wagner no doubt would have been flattered by the comparison. Despite the manifold ...

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 ...

Parsifal (Klaus Florian Vogt) returns to the Grail Kingdom to heal the ailing Amfortas (Pater Mattei). Ken Howard / Met Opera Call in sick at work. Hire a sitter for your kids, dogs or significant ...

But both Simon McBurney’s production of The Magic Flute at English National Opera and now Stephen Langridge’s unleavened Royal Opera Parsifal suggest that these are sects not worth joining or saving.