Parsifal - Deutsche Oper Berlin (2016) - Parsifal - Deutsche Oper Berlin (2016)

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Richard Wagner's PARSIFAL tells the story of a "pure-hearted fool", who is unaware of his vocation and true nature. Parsifal is caught between two opposing worlds - the ascetic society of the Knights of the Holy Grail and Klingsor's erotically charged magic garden. There, Parsival attains enlightenment from the kiss of a woman and is able to gain redemption for Amfortas, the suffering Grail king, and the Knights of the Grail. Borrowing freely from a diverse range of sagas, Christian and Buddhist motifs and Schopenhauer's ideas, Richard Wagner created his own mythical tale. Wagner, too, was plagued for decades by a fear of disaster and a constant thirst for redemption. With his PARSIFAL he addressed head-on the question of redemption, both private and social, and conjured his own utopia in the chaste, male world of the Knights of the Grail.

The premiere of Richard Wagner's PARSIFAL, his Bühnenweihfestspiel or 'festival drama for the consecration of the stage', represented the climax of festivities to mark the 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. General Music Director Donald Runnicles teams up with film and opera director Philipp Stölzl, who has twice come up with spectacular and suggestive images for the works of Richard Wagner - in 2009 with THE FLYING DUTCHMAN at the Theater Basel and in 2010 with RIENZI at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

More information is available on the official website of the opera house.

Schedule

October 16, 2016 16:00:00

October 22, 2016 17:00:00

October 30, 2016 16:00:00

Casting

Philipp Stölzl

Donald Runnicles

Thomas Johannes Mayer

Andrew Harris

Stephen Milling

Klaus Florian Vogt

Derek Welton

Daniela Sindram

Andrew Dickinson

Alexei Botnarciuc

Elena Tsallagova

Siobhán Stagg

Adriana Ferfezka

Annika Schlicht

Alexandra Hutton

Attilio Glaser

Alexandra Hutton

Annika Schlicht

Work's characters list

Director

Conductor

Amfortas

Titurel

Gurnemanz

Parsifal

Klingsor

Kundry

Erster Gralsritter

Zweiter Gralsritter

Klingsors Zaubermädchen

Klingsors Zaubermädchen

Klingsors Zaubermädchen

Klingsors Zaubermädchen

Klingsors Zaubermädchen

Vierter Knappe

Erster Knappe

Zweiter Knappe

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