Directing Opera North’s first-ever performance of the work, Sam Brown’s approach has avoided getting it mired too deep in the philosophy and restricted himself to a handful of bold touches in the ...

San Francisco Opera Music Director Eun Sun Kim is deep in her Wagner era and thriving. After dazzling audiences with 2023's sinuously propulsive "Lohengin" and an emotionally wrenching 2024 "Tristan ...

Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Parsifal,” at the San Francisco Opera.

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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 ...

Richard Wagner’s enigmatic, transcendent swan song, “Parsifal,” is an opera about the Holy Grail that has taken on certain Grail-like qualities of its own. Confronting the end of his life, the ...

Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s ‘The Monkey King’ persuasively conjured the spirit of Chinese opera; Matthew Ozawa’s new Wagner production had admirable clarity.