"extracts from Palmer's stage production of ""Parsifal"" starring Plácido Domingo, Violeta Urmana, Matti Salminen, Nikolai Putilin, and Anna Netrebko. In also includes interviews with Domingo, Wolfgang Wagner, Robert Gutman, and Karen Armstrong. The film exists in two versions: (1) a complete version running 116 minutes and officially approved by Domingo, and (2) an 88-minute version, with cuts of passages regarded by the German distributor as being too ""political"", ""uncomfortable"", and ""irrelevant"". Parsifal Parsifal (WWV 111) is an opera in three acts by German composer Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on ""Parzival"" by Wolfram von Eschenbach, a 13th-century epic poem"
"et Dalila"" (2000), Don Pizarro in ""Fidelio"" (2000), Amfortas in ""Parsifal"" (2003), and Iago in ""Otello"" (2012). His recordings include: the role of Orest in ""Elektra"" (Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Daniel Barenboim); Kurwenal in ""Tristan und Isolde"" (Bayreuther Festspiele 1995, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, filmed); Amfortas in ""Parsifal"" (Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Christian Thielemann) and the Dutchman in ""The Flying Dutchman"" (Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Daniel Barenboim). Falk Struckmann A Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera, he made his debut there as Orest in ""Elektra"" on 13 September 1991. In"
"He retired from the stage in 1907, and died at Mauer, Vienna, in 1912, aged 62. Recordings exist of his voice in his later career, and he appears in ""The Record of Singing"". His son was also an opera singer. Hermann Winkelmann Hermann Winkelmann (or Winckelmann) (8 March 184918 January 1912) was a German Heldentenor, notable for creating the title role in Richard Wagner's ""Parsifal"" in 1882. Hermann Winkelmann was born in Braunschweig in 1849. His father, , was the founder of , piano manufacturers, and he himself planned to continue his father's trade. He went to Paris to study"
"recording by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik (conductor), as the best available choice. This is a partial filmography of ""Parsifal"" (1882), an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. In addition to the productions of the complete opera listed below, there is a 1998 documentary directed by Tony Palmer, titled: ""Parsifal – The Search for the Grail"". It was recorded in various European theaters, including: the Mariinsky Theatre, the Ravello Festival, Siena, and the Bayreuth Festival. It contains extracts from Mr. Palmer's stage production of ""Parsifal"" starring Plácido Domingo, Violeta Urmana, Matti Salminen, Nikolai Putilin and Anna Netrebko."
"Hermann Winkelmann Hermann Winkelmann (or Winckelmann) (8 March 184918 January 1912) was a German Heldentenor, notable for creating the title role in Richard Wagner's ""Parsifal"" in 1882. Hermann Winkelmann was born in Braunschweig in 1849. His father, , was the founder of , piano manufacturers, and he himself planned to continue his father's trade. He went to Paris to study piano construction, but while there he decided to become a singer. He had his initial training in Paris, and later with Koch in Hanover. Winkelmann made his debut as Manrico in Verdi's ""Il trovatore"" in the Court Theatre of Sondershausen"
"Parsifal (1982 film) Parsifal is a 1982 West German-French opera film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, based on the opera of the same name by Richard Wagner. It was shown out of competition at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The soundtrack is a complete performance of the opera; however the imagery used is a melange including medieval costume, puppetry, Nazi relics and a giant death mask of Richard Wagner. The Grail itself is represented by Wagner's Bayreuth Theatre and Parsifal's key transformation is portrayed with a change of actor to an androgynous but deliberately female suggesting form in order to achieve"
"Parsifal discography This is a partial discography of Parsifal, an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. ""Parsifal"" was expressly composed for the stage at Bayreuth and many of the most famous recordings of the opera come from live performances on that stage. In the pre-LP era, Karl Muck conducted excerpts from the opera at Bayreuth which are still considered some of the best performances of the opera on disc (they also contain the only sound evidence of the bells constructed for the work's premiere, which were later melted down by the Nazis during World War II). Hans Knappertsbusch was"
"as ""Le grand macabre"", Mozart's both ""Die Entführung aus dem Serail"" and ""Don Giovanni"" as well as Giuseppe Verdi's ""Don Giovanni"" and ""Rigoletto"". Besides those operas he is well known for production of Richard Wagner's ""The Flying Dutchman"" and Gioachino Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"" as well as ""The Merry Widow"" operetta of Franz Lehar and Leoš Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, among other well respected works. In 1985 he conducted Richard Strauss's ""Ariadne auf Naxos"" which was performed in Spoleto and next year became a conductor of another Gioachino Rossini's work called ""La Cenerentola"" in Aspen. Later on, he became Simon"
"Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status"
"Selective bibliography Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying"
"""Titurel"", which was later continued by another writer, while two full romances were written adapting Wolfram's story of Loherangrin. Richard Wagner based his famous opera ""Parsifal"", finished in 1882, on ""Parzival"". ""Parzival"" is divided into sixteen books, each composed of several thirty-line stanzas of rhyming couplets. The stanza lengths fit perfectly onto a manuscript page. For the subject matter Wolfram von Eschenbach largely adapted the Grail romance, ""Perceval, the Story of the Grail"", left incomplete by Chrétien de Troyes. Wolfram claimed that a certain Kyot the Provençal supplied additional material drawn from Arabic and Angevin sources but most scholars now"
"was expanded into two full romances, ""Lohengrin"" and ""Lorengel"", and later German writers often referred back to ""Parzival"" in their works. Ludwig II of Bavaria was inspired by the poem, and Singers' Hall in his castle is decorated with tapestries and paintings depicting the story. He was also patron to the composer Richard Wagner and encouraged him to create the opera ""Parsifal"" based on the romance. He then commissioned eight private performances of the work. The standard edition of the text is Karl Lachmann's, 1926. This is the basis for all modern editions, including: English translations: Modern German translations: Spanish"
"Parsifal bell A Parsifal bell (German: ""Parsifal Klavier Instrument"") is a stringed musical instrument designed as a substitute for the church bells that are called for in the score of Richard Wagner's opera ""Parsifal"". The instrument was designed by Felix Mottl, a conductor of Wagner's works, and constructed by Schweisgut, of Karlsruhe, Germany. It is constructed on the principle of the grand piano. A massive frame is shaped like a snooker table. The instrument has five notes; each note has six strings (three are tuned to the fundamental pitch, and three an octave higher). The strings are struck by large"
"and most entrancing opera score to date."" At the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Dorn staged ""Così fan tutte"" in 1984 and ""Le nozze di Figaro"" in 1987, both conducted by Wolfgang Gönnenwein. At the Bayreuth Festival, he staged ""Der Fliegende Holländer"" in 1990, and at the Metropolitan Opera ""Tristan und Isolde"" in 1999, conducted by James Levine. The Cuvilliés Theatre was reopened in 2008 with Mozart's ""Idomeneo"", staged by Dieter Dorn, conducted by Kent Nagano, sets and costumes by Jürgen Rose, with singers John Mark Ainsley, Juliane Banse and Annette Dasch. In 2018, Dorn staged Richard Wagners ""Parsifal"", conducted by Sir Simon"
"Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin (""The Bird-Man and the Flying Princess"") is a fairy-tale opera in three acts by Udo Zimmermann with a libretto which he wrote with Eberhard Schmidt based on the eponymous fairy tale by Peter Hacks. It was first performed on 30 December 1976 at the Semperoper, staged by Harry Kupfer. Zimmermann grew up and studied in the German Democratic Republic. In his opera ', he had chosen a political topic, a scientist's conflict, located in a present-day city there. In contrast, ""Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin"" is a"
"Poul Elming Poul Elming (born 21 July 1949, Ålborg) is a Danish opera singer. He began his career as a baritone; making his professional debut in 1979 as a member of the Jutland Opera in Århus. He then pursued studies at the Juilliard School in New York City where his voice was re-trained in the tenor repertoire. In 1989, he made his debut as a tenor at the Royal Danish Theatre as the title hero in Richard Wagner's ""Parsifal"". He has since sung leading roles with major opera companies and festivals throughout the world, including the Bayreuth Festival, the Berlin"
"- is hard to explain. ... [I]nstead of their shocking us away from the romantic spell of the music, they reinforce that spell. It's as if Wagner's hypnotic allure and Brecht's intellectualized alienation have been somehow mystically united."" Graham Bradshaw wrote in ""London Review of Books"": ""Using clever front projection techniques, [Syberberg] provides a rapid background commentary on the main dramatic action: this is sometimes contrived and disruptive, but more frequently suggests the reflexes and ricochets of a mind that is actively engaging with ""Parsifal""."" Parsifal (1982 film) Parsifal is a 1982 West German-French opera film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg,"
"of the first three operas in the tetralogy, but was impressed by the ""Götterdämmerung"" and edited up a version of it; but Decca did not release it. His 1951 and 1962 recordings of ""Parsifal"" are highly regarded; Bavarian Radio holds a tape of the 1955 Parsifal, but it has not yet been issued. Recordings of live performances of ""Parsifal"" from Bayreuth are available from nearly all the intervening years and extending through 1964. Hans Knappertsbusch Hans Knappertsbusch (12 March 1888 – 25 October 1965) was a German conductor, best known for his performances of the music of Richard Wagner, Anton"
"music in the GDR), which was reissued in 2002. Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin (""The Bird-Man and the Flying Princess"") is a fairy-tale opera in three acts by Udo Zimmermann with a libretto which he wrote with Eberhard Schmidt based on the eponymous fairy tale by Peter Hacks. It was first performed on 30 December 1976 at the Semperoper, staged by Harry Kupfer. Zimmermann grew up and studied in the German Democratic Republic. In his opera ', he had chosen a political topic, a scientist's conflict, located in a present-day city there. In"
"in 1998, he has been invited to show his artwork in the United States where he moved in 2003, becoming then a US resident. Pascal Lecocq’s dissertation for the Doctorate was a philosophical study of the interrelation between all the arts, focusing in the set design in opera, making a historical study specific to the ""Wandeldekoration"", spectacular moving scenery of ""Parsifal"", by Richard Wagner, from 1882 to 1982. Then, Pascal Lecocq worked as a director assistant, and set and costume designer in different opera houses in France (from 1985 to 1996: ""Lohengrin, Der Ring, Parsifal, Tosca, Traviata"" …and in 2016"
"a union of male and female at the conclusion of Act II. Prior to making ""Parsifal"", Hans-Jürgen Syberberg had made three films which bring up the subject of Richard Wagner: """" from 1972, ""The Confessions of Winifred Wagner"" from 1975 and """" from 1977. ""The Confessions of Winifred Wagner"" had upset the descendants of Wagner, which had the effect that Syberberg was not allowed to use any existing recording of the opera for the soundtrack of ""Parsifal"". A production was instead arranged specifically for the film, with Armin Jordan as conductor. The film was shot entirely in studio in 35"
"Winkelmann, who later achieved immortality as the creator of the title role in Wagner's ""Parsifal"". Its premiere in Russia, on at the Mariinsky Theatre, was in Italian. The first performance of the opera in its original French libretto was at Rouen on 14 February 1894. Rome, about 60 AD. The house of the courtesan Epicharis, where a party is taking place. Enter Chrysa, who begs Vindex to give her protection from a pursuing band of low-life, who invade the premises. Their leader turns out to be Nero in disguise. Saccus suggests that, by way of entertainment, a mock-marriage be arranged"
"productions through 1970, including ""Ariadne auf Naxos"", ""La bohème"", ""The Flying Dutchman"", and ""Simon Boccanegra"". In 1972 Lenhoff directed his first opera; a production of Strauss' ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" at the Paris Opera with Christa Ludwig and Walter Berry. He directed that same work for his directorial debut at the San Francisco Opera (SFO) with Leonie Rysanek as the Empress in 1976. He returned many times to direct for the SFO over the next three decades, including ""Salome"" (1982 & 1987), ""The Ring Cycle"" (1983-1985, 1990, & 1999), ""Die Walküre"" (1995), ""Parsifal"" (1999-2000), and ""The Flying Dutchman"" (2004-2005). His"
"the Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, Anton Bruckner, Camille Saint-Saëns and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Wagner was far from satisfied with the Festival; Cosima recorded that months later, his attitude towards the productions was ""Never again, never again!"" Moreover, the festival finished with a deficit of about 150,000 marks. The expenses of Bayreuth and of Wahnfried meant that Wagner still sought additional sources of income by conducting or taking on commissions such as the ""Centennial March"" for America, for which he received $5000. Following the first Bayreuth Festival, Wagner began work on ""Parsifal"", his final opera. The composition took four years,"
"Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (; 29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces. He was a precocious composer of operas, and he made his debut at age 18 with ""La cambiale di matrimonio"". His best-known operas include the Italian comedies ""The Barber of Seville"" (""Il barbiere di Siviglia""), ""The Italian Girl in Algiers"" (""L'italiana in Algeri""), and ""Cinderella"" (""La Cenerentola""). He also wrote a string of serious operas in Italian, including works such as ""Tancredi"", ""Otello"", and ""Semiramide"". ""The Thieving"
"Wagner's ""Tristan und Isolde"", Pizarro in Ludwig van Beethoven's ""Fidelio"", Přemysl in Zdeněk Fibich's ""Šárka"", Přemysl, Chrudoš, and Radovan in Smetana's ""Libuše"", Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's ""Tosca"", Telramund in Wagner's ""Lohengrin"", Tomeš in Smetana's ""The Kiss"", Wotan in Wagner's ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"", and the title roles in Modest Mussorgsky's ""Boris Godunov"", Wagner's ""The Flying Dutchman"", Verdi's ""Nabucco"", Alexander Borodin's ""Prince Igor"", and Verdi's ""Simon Boccanegra"". Antonín Švorc Antonín Švorc (12 February 1934 in Jaroměř – 21 February 2011) was a Czech operatic bass-baritone. He studied with J. Berlíka at the Prague Conservatory before making his professional opera debut at"
"music demonstrations. There was also the subject of ""Freedom and Chains"", with the theme of ""The History of Slavery"", accompanied by examples of subject relevant music. Since 2013 until 2018, Gilmore is teaching Voice at Kreativ Musik Forum in Munich. Gail Varina Gilmore Gail Varina Gilmore (born September 21, 1950 in Washington, D.C.) is an African-American Gospel, jazz and (mezzo-soprano) opera singer. She is particularly known for her interpretation of Kundry in Richard Wagner's opera ""Parsifal"". Gail Gilmore, born in Washington, D.C., grew up in New Orleans. She completed her undergraduate degree at the Xavier University of New Orleans with"
"the music-dramas of Wagner, he also led the original productions of the Richard Strauss operas ""Feuersnot"" (1901), ""Salome"" (1905), ""Elektra"" (1909) and ""Der Rosenkavalier"" (1911) as well as the first German productions of operas by Puccini and Mascagni, and the Dresden première of Wagner's ""Parsifal"" on 24 March 1914, his last new production before his death on 10 May. Also highly valued as a nonoperatic conductor, he was particularly known in the concert hall for his renditions of the orchestral works of Felix Draeseke and Strauss. He married coloratura soprano Clementine von Schuch-Proska (Klementine Procházka) (1850-1932), who became an honorary"
"Parisian production was directed by Lapissida, with costumes designed by Charles Bianchini, and sets by Marcel Jambon (Act I), Amable and Eugène Gardy (Act II), Eugène Carpezat (Act III), and Auguste-Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (Act IV). At its first appearance in Vienna, the title role was sung by Hermann Winkelmann, who had created the title role in Wagner's ""Parsifal"" at Bayreuth in 1882. Today, the opera is frequently performed throughout the world, a staple of the standard repertoire. Since three leading roles of the opera (Desdemona, Iago and Otello) are among Verdi's most demanding, both vocally and dramatically, some"
"Gail Varina Gilmore Gail Varina Gilmore (born September 21, 1950 in Washington, D.C.) is an African-American Gospel, jazz and (mezzo-soprano) opera singer. She is particularly known for her interpretation of Kundry in Richard Wagner's opera ""Parsifal"". Gail Gilmore, born in Washington, D.C., grew up in New Orleans. She completed her undergraduate degree at the Xavier University of New Orleans with a Bachelor of Music in 1972. Two years later, at the music department of the Indiana University at Bloomington, she received a Masters in Music. The same year, the then-24-year-old singer launched her stage career in Europe, specifically in Germany."
"However, Wagner had completed the libretto for ""Parsifal"" by 1877, and the original drafts of the story date back to 1857. Despite this chronological evidence, Gobineau is frequently cited as a major inspiration for ""Parsifal"". The related question of whether the opera contains a specifically anti-Semitic message is also debated. Some of Wagner's contemporaries and commentators (e.g. Hans von Wolzogen and Ernest Newman) who analysed ""Parsifal"" at length, make no mention of any anti-Semitic interpretations. However the critics Paul Lindau and Max Nordbeck, present at ""Parsifal"" 's premiere, noted in their reviews how the work accorded with Wagner's anti-Jewish sentiments."
"Morris in the title role. That same year he made his directorial debut at the Metropolitan Opera with Eva Marton as his Salome. He directed that same work three more times at the Met; in 1990, 1996, and 2004. In 2000-2001 he directed ""Parsifal"" and ""The Flying Dutchman"" at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 2006 he directed the European debut of Jake Heggie's ""Dead Man Walking"" at the Semperoper in Dresden. In 2013 he directed ""The Flying Dutchman"" at the Los Angeles Opera. The last production he directed was Puccini's ""Turandot"" at La Scala in May 2015. Nikolaus Lehnhoff"
"Francesc Viñas Francesc Viñas i Dordal (27 March 1863 – 14 July 1933) was a Spanish operatic tenor. He is also known by the Spanish version of his name, Francisco Viñas and the Italian version, Francesco Vignas. He was particularly known for his performances in the operas of Richard Wagner and sang in the first production of ""Parsifal"" outside Bayreuth. Viñas was born in Moià, a small town near Barcelona. At the age of 23, he enrolled in singing lessons at the Barcelona Conservatory where he studied under Gonçal Tintorer. After hearing him in some of the conservatory's concerts, Juan"