The great composer Richard Wagner was said to believe in creating “total works of art.” He wrote operas so expansive the audience would feel…
Prepare yourself for a chocolate-meets-peanut butter moment. This event, Wagner Bowling, rolls together two things previously unassociated: bowling and opera. Yes, that's right. Bowling…
Probably a lot of perfectly good culture gets avoided because people just don’t get it. Without a baseline understanding of the art in question,…
Many people go through a Jerry Springer phase, usually running concurrent with a rough patch in their lives: losing a job, losing their shit,…
Nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner would have been mortified to hear himself compared to the enterprising queer party planners responsible for present-day San Francisco…
Nibelungen Lite Der Ring Des Nibelungen, a San Francisco Opera summer festival. Music and libretto by Richard Wagner. Conducted by Donald Runnicles. Directed by…
Sex, war, and pointy helmets: a guide to the San Francisco Opera's Ring cycle, the only thing Bugs Bunny, Adolf Hitler, and Francis Ford…