Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s “The Monkey King,” based on “Journey to the West,” brings an old superhero to the opera ...

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SAN FRANCISCO – A rascally superhero born from a stone egg, the Monkey King is beloved in Chinese mythology, appearing in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opera Parallle, San Francisco's innovating champion of new work, opens its 2025-26 season this weekend with an inspirational show celebrating Black women scientists. The world premiere "Hello, Star" ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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