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The meaning of Richard Wagner's Parsifal has always been in dispute. Is it a pious Christian spectacle? A Buddhist tale masquerading as Catholic kitsch? A pagan drama which shamelessly appropriates ...

NIGHTS (AND AFTERNOONS) AT THE OPERA / This is the 10th in a season-long series about the works the Metropolitan Opera will present during its 2012-13 "The Met: Live in HD" series in local movie ...

Geneva’s new “Parsifal” production escaped the boos heard after several recent Richard Wagner opera premieres at the Grand Theatre, with a richly colored staging accompanying music that was at times ...

Matthew Ozawa had already directed Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” for San Francisco Opera when the company's director asked him in early 2023 to direct Wagner’s “Parsifal.” ...

It might be thought a touch hubristic, not to say risky, to add new layers of mystery to a work as notoriously enigmatic as Wagner’s Parsifal. In fact, Jetske Mijnssen’s revelatory production ...

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 ...