Daniel Barenboim, when I spoke to him before his Sydney tour last year, gave a very good definition of compassion as a “moral attitude” when he was discussing the seemingly intractable conflict ...
Wagner’s final opera comes to Glyndebourne this week. Why will the composer and his wife be turning in their graves? Michael Downes looks at the family’s attempts to keep Parsifal in Bayreuth When ...
Evgeny Titov’s brutal and powerful new staging of Wagner’s final opera explains as little as possible. Christian Gerhaher is a compelling and wild-eyed Amfortas and Jakub Hrůša and the Royal Opera’s ...
Rupert Christiansen was the opera critic and arts features writer for The Telegraph between 1995 and 2020. He is the author of several books of cultural history including Romantic Affinities, Paris ...
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Celebrated German tenor Jonas Kaufmann takes to the stage in the title role of Richard Wagner’s late work Parsifal. Drawing on the timeless setting of a quest for the Holy Grail, this story follows a ...
While Wagner’s final opera traditionally commands the best from the greatest musicians of any era, the visual presentation of Parsifal grows ever more discursive due to the story’s open-ended ...
BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — A giant swan sailed into auditorium and crashed, felled by a huge arrow still protruding. Flowers burst into bloom, radiant in red and green, pink and blue. In the theater ...
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If I needed to choose my favorite incongruous moment from Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s spectacularly bad production of “Parsifal,” which opened this year’s Bayreuth Festival, I would choose the shukling, or ...
Melbourne Opera announced its 2027 season featuring four full-scale productions, including a new staging of Richard Wagner's ...
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