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The revelation didn't come immediately - nothing in Wagner comes immediately - though it didn't take long for the music to start having its effect. I'd forgotten how gentle the score to Wagner's final ...

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 ...

Three ‘firsts’ mark this production of Wagner’s final opera Parsifal at Glyndebourne. This is the first time the production has ever been staged at Glyndebourne, it marks the directorial debut at the ...

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 ...

IT is the purpose of this paper to give the impression made by the performance of Parsifal at Baireuth, last summer, in view of certain strictures upon the motive of the drama, and without any attempt ...

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 ...

On January 19, 2024, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will open Parsifal, Wagner's final masterpiece, in a stunning, colorful production directed by John Caird, with HGO Principal Guest Conductor Eun Sun Kim ...

When John Christie launched Glyndebourne back in 1934, he intended to create an English Bayreuth; instead, he was persuaded to begin with Mozart. Wagner eventually arrived with successful productions ...

The revelation didn't come immediately - nothing in Wagner comes immediately - though it didn't take long for the music to start having its effect. I'd forgotten how gentle the score to Wagner's final ...