Name: Parsifal
Start: 2017-04-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-04-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Staatsoper im Schiller Theater

Organization

Bass

René Pape

Gurnemanz

Tenor

Andreas Schager

Parsifal

Bass-baritone

Tómas Tómasson

Klingsor

Baritone

Lauri Vasar

Amfortas

Soprano

Anna Larsson

Kundry

Matthias Hölle

Titurel

Michael Smallwood

First Grail knight

Dominic Barberi

Second Grail knight

Katerina Estrada Tretyakova

First flower maiden

Adriane Queiroz

Second flower maiden

Anja Schlosser

Third flower maiden

Sónia Grané

Fourth flower maiden

Narine Yeghiyan

Fifth flower maiden

Natalia Skrycka

Sixth flower maiden

First squire

Contralto

Second squire

Conductor

Daniel Barenboim

Stage director

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Set designer

Costume designer

Elena Zaitseva

Lighting designer

Gleb Filshtinsky

Chorus master

Martin Wright

Florian Hoffmann

Third squire

Michael Porter

Fourth squire

State Opera Berlin

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

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Staatsopernchor Berlin

German

Berlin

Germany

Staatsoper im Schiller Theater

Parsifal Wagner,Richard

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English

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Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

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Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

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Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

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Actor

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Choir

Poet

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Teacher

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Illustrator

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Singer

Countertenor

Mezzo-soprano

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Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

​Eine heilsverkündende Gralsbruderschaft hat sich ein strenges Keuschheitsgelübde auferlegt und hütet zwei Reliquien, von denen die Brüder sich ewiges Leben erhoffen: den heiligen Gral und den heiligen Speer. Doch weil ihr Gralskönig Amfortas sich mit der geheimnisvollen Kundry versündigte, ist der Speer in die Hände des einst von der Bruderschaft abgewiesenen Klingsor gelangt, der dem Sünder damit eine nicht heilende Wunde zufügte. Um Amfortas von seinen ewigen Qualen zu erlösen und den Speer zurückzuerlangen, bedarf es laut einer Prophezeihung eines »durch Mitleid wissenden, reinen Toren«. In dem naiven Parsifal glaubt Gurnemanz, der geistige Führer der Bruderschaft, diesen neuen Heiland gefunden zu haben. Doch diesem steht noch ein langer Weg zur Erkenntnis bevor …

Am Ende seines Lebens verband Richard Wagner in seinem »Parsifal« christlichen Mythos mit buddhistischen Elementen und Reflexionen aus der Philosophie Schopenhauers und sah darin die von ihm selbst propagierte Idee einer Kunstreligion verwirklicht. Mit einer beseelenden und erhebenden Musik von großer Strahlkraft führt er letztendlich eine religiöse Ideologie vor, die die Überwindung von Sinnlichkeit und Sünde durch Erkenntnis, Mit-Leid und Verweigerung der als verwerflich dargestellten Liebe predigt.

Deutsch

A salvation-proclaiming Grail Brotherhood has taken a strict vow of chastity and guards two relics from which the brothers hope eternal life: the Holy Grail and the Holy Spear. But because Amfortas, the king of the Grail, sinned against the mysterious Kundry, the spear ended up in the hands of Klingsor, who had once been rejected by the Brotherhood, and inflicted the sinner with an unhealing wound. According to a prophecy, in order to put Amfortas out of his eternal torment and recover the spear, it would take a “pure fool knowing through compassion”. Gurnemanz, the Brotherhood's spiritual leader, believes he has found this new savior in the naive Parsifal. But there is still a long way to go to find out...

At the end of his life, Richard Wagner combined Christian myth with Buddhist elements and reflections on Schopenhauer's philosophy in his »Parsifal« and saw in it the idea of ​​an art religion, which he himself had propagated, realized. With an inspiring and uplifting music of great radiance, he ultimately presents a religious ideology that preaches the overcoming of sensuality and sin through knowledge, compassion and the refusal of love, which is portrayed as reprehensible.

Parsifal by Wagner, Richard, Sat 08 Apr 2017, From (2017/2017), Directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov,, Conductor Daniel Barenboim, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin, Germany

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