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 ...
Ever since the 1882 premiere of Richard Wagner’s final stage work, “Parsifal,” at the composer’s custom-built opera house in Bayreuth, Germany, performers have wrestled mightily with the problems ...
The celebrated German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) reportedly said that no theater but the Bayreuth Festspielhaus would stage his opera ``Parsifal’’ thereby preventing the widespread ...
Houston Chronicle: Houston Grand Opera to stage rare performance of Wagner's 'Parsifal' this weekend
Houston Grand Opera to stage rare performance of Wagner's 'Parsifal' this weekend
BroadwayWorld: New Jersey Opera: Night of Opera by Richard Wagner at Union County Performing Arts Center
New Jersey Opera’s inaugural performance at UCPAC will be a tour of Wagner’s operas including arias from Die Walküre, Das Rheingold, Götterdämmerung, Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Die Meistersinger, Lohengrin ...
New Jersey Opera: Night of Opera by Richard Wagner at Union County Performing Arts Center
Wagner's enrapturing romantic music runs the risk of being stifling – even narcissistic. So I find it fascinating that in his final opera, Wagner turns his obsession on its head: in Parsifal (1880) ...
BroadwayWorld: La Monnaie De Munt to Present Richard Wagner's PARSIFAL in Concert
Parsifal was Wagner's last opera and lasts more than five hours. As well as demanding huge stamina from the singers, however, this production gave the audience more problems than usual in following a ...