A bold restaging of Tristan und Isolde arrives at a moment of intense concern about the cultural inheritance of Western ...

The third part of Wagner's Ring cycle is sometimes least exciting, but Australian director Barrie Kosky's thrilling Siegfried kept the audience enthralled Everything about this production is superb.

Like the sybaritic Ludwig who ruled Bavaria 50 years ago, Adolf Hitler has a fanatic admiration for the operas of Richard Wagner. King Ludwig liked to think of himself as Lohengrin or Parsifal, fixed ...

Yes, San Francisco can be expensive. But we find ourselves doing things we never had time for when working. San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly said that monetary policy is “in a good ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College Opera will present “Echoes Between the Lines” next month, a program featuring scenes from Mozart, Handel, Verdi, Puccini, Berlioz, Sondheim, Lehár and Bernstein.

The other week I entered San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House at 6 p.m. and didn’t exit until almost midnight. I was there for an evening showing of “Parsifal,” a nearly five hour-long opera based ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brian Mulligan as Amfortas, center, in San Francisco Opera's new production of "Parsifal" by Richard Wagner. (Cory Weaver/San ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Tacoma Opera is betting big on Wagner. At the end of composer Richard Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” which the company will present in two performances at the Pantages Theater Oct. 3 and 5, the gods cross ...