Organization

Stage director

Nilufar K. Münzing

Conductor

Joseph Trafton

Lighting designer

Hans-Joachim Köster

Costume designer

Uta Gruber-Ballehr

Set designer

Britta Lammers

Dramaturge

Rebecca Graitl

Chorus master

Wolfgang Müller-Salow

Singer

Tenor

Matthew Overmeyer

First Grail knight

Bass

Shin Yeo

Second Grail knight

Baritone

Insu Hwang

Amfortas

Ivo Stánchev

Titurel

Dong-Won Seo

Gurnemanz

Corby Welch

Parsifal

Bass-baritone

Jaco Venter

Klingsor

Soprano

Angela Davis

Kundry

Anton Kuzenok

Kenneth Mattice

Penny Sofroniadou

First squire

Contralto

Evelyn Krahe

Second squire

Third squire

Richard van Gemert

Fourth squire

Fang Cai

First flower maiden

Second flower maiden

Clara Fréjacques

Third flower maiden

Franziska Giesemann

Fourth flower maiden

Karola Sophia Schmid

Fifth flower maiden

Sixth flower maiden

Voice from above

Theater Hagen

German

Hagen

Germany

Münster

Konzert Theater Coesfeld

Parsifal Wagner,Richard

Public

Approved

Eine Wunde, die nicht verheilt, quält den Gralskönig Amfortas: Sein Gegner Klingsor fügte ihm diese Verletzung zu, als er ihm den heiligen Speer entwendete. ...

A wound that does not heal torments the Grail King Amfortas: His opponent Klingsor inflicted this injury on him when he stole the holy spear from him. The knights, who guard the Holy Grail and promise eternal life, try to help Amfortas - but according to the prophecy only a "clean fool" can save him. When the inexperienced Parsifal joins the community, the Grail knight Gurnemanz thinks he recognizes the prophesied savior in him. But Parsifal first has to go through painful experiences of his own before the strength of compassion is revealed to him and he can find his place in the Brotherhood of the Grail.

Richard Wagner described the last opera he composed as his "most reconciling work". He combines elements of Christian, Buddhist and Hindu beliefs with motifs from myths and legends to create his own Parsifal myth. Wagner's composition fascinates with its sophisticated leitmotif technique and mystical sound spheres - Thomas Mann wrote that the score is "full of sounds, which one follows with ever new unrest, curiosity and enchantment."

After Tristan and Isolde , the Hagen Theater is again showing a monumental work by Richard Wagner in its own interpretation.

English

Parsifal by Wagner, Richard, From (2022/2022), Directed by Nilufar K. Münzing,, Conductor Joseph Trafton, Theater Hagen, Hagen, Germany

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