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Parsifal
Opéra Bastille - from 24 May to 12 June 2022
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Parsifal
Opera Richard Wagner
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Opéra Bastille - from 24 May to 12 June 2022
5h10 with 2 intervals
Language : German
Surtitle : French / English
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Opening night : 24 May 2022
About
In few words:
As of the prelude of Parsifal something magical takes place: a musical score with a sacred dimension, infused with esotericism and Buddhist and Christian references to convey a universal message, albeit a cryptic one. How are we to understand a work that we cross like a “forest of symbols”? Drawing on the legend of Percival and the Holy Grail as inspiration for his final opera, Wagner completes his reflexion on the struggle between good and evil and sows the seeds of the virtues of compassion and renunciation. Values which Richard Jones explores by confronting the moral rigour of a dogmatic community with the obscurantism of a deviant scientific ideology. Two worlds opposed to each other in every way other than an irrepressible attraction for illusions.
CHARACTERS
Amfortas: Priest and guardian of the Grail
Titurel: Amfortas’ father, founder of the community of the Knights of the Grail
Gurnemanz: Ageing knight of the Grail
Parsifal: Young man free from all sin
Klingsor: A malevolent knight, excluded from the community, and a magician
Kundry: Ambiguous character, sometimes serving Klingsor, sometimes serving the knights
Flower-girls: Malevolent women created by Klingsor
- Opening
- First part 100 mn
- Intermission 45 mn
- Second part 65 mn
- Intermission 30 mn
- Third part 70 mn
- End
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Parsifal
Opera in three acts
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Music :
Richard Wagner - (1813-1883)
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Libretto :
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Conductor :
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Director :
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Set design :
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Costume design :
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Lighting design :
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Choreography :
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Chorus master :
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Amfortas :
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Titurel :
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Gurnemanz :
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Klingsor :
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Kundry :
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Parsifal :
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Erster Gralsritter :
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Zweiter Gralsritter :
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Klingsors Zaubermädchen :
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Eine Altstimme aus der Höhe :
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Performances
Available in audiodescription
Advantages
Full
Available in audiodescription
Advantages
Full
Gallery
Audio clips
Parsifal - Amfortas (Peter Mattei )
Parsifal - Gurnemanz (Günther Groissböck)
Parsifal - Kundry (Anja Kampe)
Parsifal - Parsifal (Andreas Schager)
About the work
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“Who is the Grail?”
By Simon Hatab
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Breaking the Rules
By Marion Mirande and Simon Hatab
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Draw-me Parsifal
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