It's taken two decades for Olivier Messiaen's opera to get a U.S. staging.This first Stateside production, Nicolas Brieger's for San Francisco Opera, is an uncompromising read of this challenging work ...

In 1992, Olivier Messiaen's epic opera "Saint François d'Assise" was brought to the Salzburg Festival in a staging by Peter Sellars. The distinct visual appearance that Sellars lent to the opera, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — With a 97-piece orchestra overflowing into the audience and a 25-pound score that requires an octopus-like conductor, Olivier Messiaen's "St. Francois d'Assise" is the biggest project ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Olivier Messiaen’s opera, “Saint Francois d’Assise,” is very long and contains little external drama. The composer’s own plot synopsis of the fifth of the opera’s eight scenes, for ...

AMSTERDAM -- There have been some things even the most dazed Dutch, hazy-headed from the legal hash and marijuana sold in “coffee shops,” probably couldn’t have missed this month in their teeming ...

Since their closure in 2020 due to the coronavirus, American opera houses have been struggling to regain their financial footing—and their audiences. Most have reduced the number of performances they ...

Gérard Uféras, L'ange du "Saint Francoise d'Assise" de Messiaen, Salzburger Festspiele, Austria, 1992. Gelatin silver print, 40 x 28 in. (100 x 70 cm). Edition of 15. Signed. Gérard Uféras was born in ...