Melbourne Opera announced its 2027 season featuring four full-scale productions, including a new staging of Richard Wagner's ...
Celebrating twenty-five independently funded years and over sixty productions, Melbourne Opera has announced its 2027 season.
Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Parsifal and Ekaterina Gubanova as Kundry in Evgeny Titov's production of Parsifal, The Royal Opera - (©2026 Marc Brenner) Wagner’s culminating masterpiece Parsifal is an ...
The punishingly ugly designs seem targeted to annoy, but this production of Wagner’s final opera actually has a deep moral seriousness ...
‘Here time becomes space,’ says Gurnemanz in Act One of Parsifal, and true enough, the end of the new Glyndebourne Parsifal is in its beginning. We don’t know that, at first: the sickbed image that’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
If the Royal Opera’s new Parsifal had ended after Act One, you’d be reading right now that it was one of the finest British Wagner productions of recent years. The prelude is played with the curtain ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...