My review of San Francisco Opera’s new production of Parsifal has been posted on the Opera Now website:
Time moves differently in San Francisco Opera’s Parsifal. Under Eun Sun Kim’s baton, Wagner’s score breathes with a kind of suspended inevitability, while movement and light unfold in ritual slow motion, evoking a theatre of Baudelairean correspondences, where sound, image and gesture seem to mirror one another in continual exchange.
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 
Hello. I read your review of SF Opera’s Parsifal and noticed the part you wrote “the slow articulations and charged stillness of Butoh and Noh theatre.”
I think you meant to say “Noh theatre” as Butoh is not the same art form as Noh which originated in the 14th century Japan. Butoh is conisidered as “modern” dance form that emerged in postwar Japan.
I am a Japanese and I noticed this.
Chie
Hello –thanks for reading. I did in fact mean to refer to both of these very different art forms. Matthew Ozawa, the director, elucidated how both are present as influences on his concept of the staging.