It may have taken 90 years, but Glyndebourne has finally staged its first "Parsifal". The opera house's founder, John ...

Jetske Mijnssen’s risky yet revelatory production of Wagner’s enigmatic opera centres compassion and critiques negative ...

Parsifal was Wagner's last opera and lasts more than five hours. As well as demanding huge stamina from the singers, however, ...

There’s a grail, but it doesn't glow in a mundane if perverted Christian ritual. Three of the main characters have young and ...

Nothing about Wagner’s Parsifal is normal. It certainly isn’t a normal opera, though countless directors have tried to make ...

The most shocking and disconcerting moment of Mijnssen’s staging arrives at the end of Act 2, when Parsifal chooses not to ...

This annual celebration of composer Richard Wagner used to have a ten-year waiting list for tickets. I registered to buy tickets online on Tuesday, August 8, just to see if any were available.

This image released by the Bayreuth Festival shows Klingsor's Flower Maiders during a dress rehearsal of Jay Scheib's production of Wagner's "Parsifal" at the Bayreuth Festival 2023 in Bayreuth ...