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Bayreuther Festspiele

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Horst Stein

Режиссер-постановщик

Wolfgang Wagner

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Художник по костюмам

Reinhard Heinrich

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Тенор

Siegfried Jerusalem

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Сопрано

Eva Randová

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Hans Sotin

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Баритон

Bernd Weikl

Амфортас

Matti Salminen

Титурель

Бас-баритон

Leif Roar

Клингзор

Heinz-Klaus Ecker

Второй рыцарь Грааля

Marga Schiml

Erster Knappe

Контральто

Hanna Schwarz

Zweiter Knappe

Helmut Pampuch

Dritter Knappe

Mari-Anne Haeggander

Sechs Blumenmädchen

Margit Neubauer

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Bayreuther Festspielorchester

Parsifal -  (Прасифаль)

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The grail, a holy vessel from which Jesus drank at the last supper, and the spear with which the dying Christ was wounded, have until now determined the life of the knights in the grail castle as symbols of faith. But the magician Klingsor was excluded from the group and has been plotting revenge ever since. In an attempt to become the owner of the Grail himself, he had King Amfortas seduced by the mysteriously beautiful Kundry and snatched the holy spear from him; the resulting wound of the Grail King does not heal. Only a "pure fool" can redeem Amfortas "knowing through compassion" from his suffering. This longed-for savior is Parsifal, but the Knights of the Grail do not recognize him at first and move on to Klingsor's kingdom. Kundry is supposed to seduce him there too, but she causes that he becomes aware of his personality and his task: he seizes the spear that Klingsor throws at him and sets off for the Castle of the Grail. When he arrives there, years later, on a Good Friday, he brings the knighthood the longed-for salvation: spear and grail are reunited, and Amfortas's wound is finally healed.

Although Richard Wagner's last opera goes back to Wolfram von Eschenbach's epic "Parzival" and other, older sources about the Grail legend, Wagner used this material to create a new Parsifal poem in which elements of Christianity, Buddhism and Schopenhauerian philosophy appear side by side and as a synopsis represent Wagner's intellectual world - "Parsifal" is much more than just a testimony of Christian faith, as the name "Bühnenweihfestspiel" initially suggested. According to Wagner's decree, no theater other than Bayreuth was allowed to perform "Parsifal" for 30 years; it was not until 1914 that the work spread through the world's opera houses.
Wagner achieved the largely predominant sacred atmosphere of the music through an instrumentation modeled on organ registration, which often uses the instruments in groups (woodwinds, brass, strings). The leitmotif work is less dense in Parsifal than in "Ring des Nibelungen"; the dazzling euphony of the Grail world is contrasted with a sophisticated chromatic harmony which, for example (in the description of Parsifal's wandering about in the desolate landscape) in the prelude to the 3rd act, anticipates the twelve-tone music of the New Viennese School (just like Wagner in the Kundry-Parsifal scene of the 2nd elevator anticipates Sigmund Freud's insights into psychoanalysis).

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