Name: Parsifal
Start: 2018-03-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-04-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Staatsoper Unter den Linden

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Baritone

Lauri Vasar

Amfortas

Bass

René Pape

Gurnemanz

Tenor

Andreas Schager

Parsifal

Soprano

Nina Stemme

Kundry

Bass-baritone

Falk Struckmann

Klingsor

Reinhard Hagen

Titurel

Michael Smallwood

First Grail knight

Grigory Shkarupa

Second Grail knight

Sónia Grané

First squire

Contralto

Natalia Skrycka

Second squire

Florian Hoffmann

Third squire

Linard Vrielink

Fourth squire

Elsa Dreisig

First flower maiden

Adriane Queiroz

Second flower maiden

Anja Schlosser

Third flower maiden

Fourth flower maiden

Narine Yeghiyan

Fifth flower maiden

Sixth flower maiden

Voice from above

Conductor

Daniel Barenboim

Stage director

Dmitri Tcherniakov

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Elena Zaitseva

Lighting designer

Gleb Filshtinsky

Singer

Dominic Barberi

Gralsritter

Jun-Sang Han

Knappen

Sechs Blumenmädchen

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Parsifal Wagner,Richard

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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 in his »Parsifal« Christian myth with Buddhist elements and reflections from Schopenhauer's philosophy and saw in it the idea of ​​an art religion that he 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, Fri 30 Mar 2018, From (2018/2018), Directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov,, Conductor Daniel Barenboim, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany

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