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) ...

In presenting this long overdue Melbourne premiere season of Parsifal, Victorian Opera gives Wagner’s final opera an intelligently conceived, splendidly performed production. The summit of his life’s ...

The success of Wagner’s final opera Parsifal depends on the principal singers, the chorus, orchestra and conductor. On the opening night of the Royal Opera’s new production, all were superb. The ...

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 ...

After a 25-year absence, Richard Wagner’s final opera, Parsifal, is back at San Francisco Opera in a musically and theatrically stunning new production. It’s a triumph for Music Director Eun Sun Kim.

“Here, time becomes space,” sings a noble knight to the young fool, Parsifal, in the first act of Wagner’s final epic masterwork. In a performance that stretches long into the night, you feel as ...

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 ...

Religiosity, illness, sex: Wagner chose heady ingredients for Parsifal, his last opera, which took nearly four decades to reach fruition. This tale of the "pure fool" who can bring salvation to the ...

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 unveiled a handsome new production of Parsifal just now — new productions a fairly rare occurrence at SFO. More importantly this Parsifal continues San Francisco Opera’s music ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Parsifal, by Wagner Opera Australia. Opera House Concert Hall. August 9 ★★★★★* In assembling a cast ...