Name: Parsifal
Start: 2017-09-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Staatsoper

Admin

Organization

Singer

Baritone

Wolfgang Koch

Amfortas

Bass

Tigran Martirossian

Titurel

Kwangchul Youn

Gurnemanz

Tenor

Andreas Schager

Parsifal

Bass-baritone

Vladimir Baykov

Klingsor

Soprano

Claudia Mahnke

Kundry

Jürgen Sacher

First Grail knight

Denis Velev

Second Grail knight

Narea Son

First squire

Sergei Ababkin

Third squire

Sascha Emanuel Kramer

Fourth squire

Athanasia Zöhrer

First flower maiden

Hellen Kwon

Second flower maiden

Dorottya Láng

Third flower maiden

Alexandra Steiner

Fourth flower maiden

Gabriele Rossmanith

Fifth flower maiden

Nadezhda Karyazina

Sixth flower maiden

Contralto

Katja Pieweck

Voice from above

Conductor

Kent Nagano

Stage director

Achim Freyer

Sebastian Bauer

Set designer

Moritz Nitsche

Costume designer

Petra Weikert

Video designer

Jakob Klaffs

Hugo Reis

Lighting designer

Sebastian Alphons

Dramaturge

Klaus-Peter Kehr

Staatsoper Hamburg

Others

Hamburg State Opera Choir

Orchestra

Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg

German

Hamburg

Germany

Staatsoper

In his “Parsifal”, Wagner created a complex world of its own. It is complex because it consists of so many heterogeneous elements whose meaning is hard to comprehend, frequently drawing us onto paths leading nowhere. Thus, the many religious signs, symbols and rituals can only be understood as partial elements pointing to a world which must be interpreted as a whole. Elements of Christianity, such as the last supper, the goblet, blood, the spear and dove, or Schopenhauer’s idea that compassion might release man from his egocentricity, as well as Gnostic and Manichean motifs lead to partial interpretative approaches which are unsuitable for “Parsifal” as a whole. A theatrical world, however, can design a fictional cosmos in which all these elements can effectively participate, leaving the audience to interpret its own experiences as it sees fit.

Parsifal Wagner,Richard

Public

English

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading