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 ...

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In Wagner’s final opera Parsifal, the title character played in this Houston Grand Opera production by tenor Russell Thomas (in a role debut) undertakes a quest to reclaim a Holy Spear. Parsifal, who ...

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I don’t think I’m too far off the mark to say that Parsifal (1882), Richard Wagner’s final opera, is on no one’s list of most favorite Wagner works. While it contains some of his most sublime music, ...

San Francisco Opera's new production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal runs from October 25 through November 13 on the War Memorial Opera House stage, directed by Matthew Ozawa. Company Chorus Director ...

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 ...

Wagner is difficult to appreciate: His operas are far too dense and much too long to be easily accessible. I don’t mean that the plot is a mess or that the music is inherently chaotic. It’s more ...

The orchestra here was committed and well into the style of the music. But there were no miracles – you couldn’t forget for long that this was an amateur ensemble. Tuning in the woodwinds would ...

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.” ...