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On occasion, an opera performance is so pitch-perfect, so theatrical, that the audience asks for more when the final curtain descends. That's what happened at Saturday's opening of San Francisco Opera ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Matthew Ozawa had already directed Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and ...

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 ...

Even with people’s modern attention span suited mostly for 15-second Instagram reels, a five hour opera can still engage and dazzle you with its enriching performance. I can attest to that. The ...