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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.” ...

The meaning of Richard Wagner's Parsifal has always been in dispute. Is it a pious Christian spectacle? A Buddhist tale masquerading as Catholic kitsch? A pagan drama which shamelessly appropriates ...

The Holy Grail isn't just the stuff of biblical lore - it's pop culture legend. But before Monty Python, Indiana Jones and "The Da Vinci Code" put their stamp on Christ's chalice, composer Richard ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...