San Francisco Opera Music Director Eun Sun Kim is deep in her Wagner era and thriving. After dazzling audiences with 2023's sinuously propulsive "Lohengin" and an emotionally wrenching 2024 "Tristan ...
Not five minutes after the curtain rises on the San Francisco Opera's radiantly beautiful new production of Wagner's "Parsifal," director Matthew Ozawa offers the audience a single unforgettable stage ...
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The Holy Grail isn't just the stuff of biblical lore - it's pop culture legend. But before Monty Python, Indiana Jones and "The Da Vinci Code" put their stamp on Christ's chalice, composer Richard ...
Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Matthew Ozawa had already directed Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and ...
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 ...
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 ...