Is it taboo to think Wagner’s opera are boring?

A confession from John Grace: the journalist admits that he can’t stay focused while listening to Parsifal, a Wagner opera that lasts a minimum of 5 hours. But what if the soporific effect is part of Wagner’s aesthetic? Aren’t we always looking for distraction? Should we listen to a masterpiece according to the masterpiece itself and open ourselves to other things? Let’s find what the conductor John Eliot Gardiner and the soprano Barbara Hannigan think about it.