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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wagner’s culminating masterpiece Parsifal is an enigmatic, troubling work and the Kazakhstan-born, Berlin-based Russian director Evgeny Titov’s provocative new production certainly offers a bleak view ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Relyea (Gurnemanz) and Daniel Johansson (Parsifal) on stage at Glyndebourne - Alastair Muir for DT Nothing about Wagner's ...

Melbourne Opera announced its 2027 season featuring four full-scale productions, including a new staging of Richard Wagner's ...

Daniele Gatti, who conducts this wondrous and moving filmed performance of Wagner's final opera says in an interval interview that one must suspend time in order truly to appreciate Parsifal. He is ...

Sydney Chamber Opera's latest production, Climbing Towards Midnight, offered a refutation of Young's assertion. There was passion and drama but mostly of a simmering, sublimated kind, only ...

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 ...