Are you a complete idiot?... I said "END OF DISCUSSION"... In other words stop sending me messages.... Most people who come to this video want to listen to the music not read a political debate between a Patriot and a left-wing idiot. So for their sake you will now be blocked.
desde que conoci a wagner, mi vida se ilumino nuevamente por un sol mas brillante y poderoso. su musica se convirtio en un renovado espiritu en mi ser.. quien no sienta eso en su corazon al igual que yo , no conoce la felicidad.
Wagner was doing his best to portray deep truths about the human quest to the world's people. This music can speak equally to anyone who lets it. The people keeping racism alive now are only those who keep discussing it. Wagner as an ego was insuperior to Wagner as an artist, plain and simple. Now please, we need to unite under this magnificant beacon of truth. It really isn't that hard, it's in our nature.
@opuspocus5553 People do not need to "keep racism alive". Every living thing is naturally predisposed to prefer its own kind. I am of Euroic race and like any sane European I prefer My own race to any other. If that makes Me racist according to your definition then I'm proud to be racist. I do not approve of Wagners anti-semitism, but if he were alive today he would be utterly horrified by the multicultural holocaust now taking place in Western Europe.
@StAngersucks Keep your mindless regurgitation of social-marxist oppression to yourself. If you love censorship and the complete denial of free speech so much then watch any TV channel, listen to any radio station or read any daily newspaper in the Western World.... The internet is the last bastion of free speech in the West. As you are so offended by freedom of thought I advise you to stay away from it.
@5thcenturyad Oh, I must have missed the genocides among all those genocides executed by nationalists. Can you please refresh my memory with some genocides initiated by a non-proud, non-nationalist, non-racist organization?
@StAngersucks Yes I can, the worst genocide in human history the one that's taking place right now throughout Western Europe and most White countries on Earth. It's commonly known as "multiculturalism". In reality this means flooding White countries with millions of non-White 3rd world colonists. Here in the UK the pakistani women produce 8 times as many children as White women. Most demographers now predict Whites will soon be a minority here. Watch "White Genocide" on youtube.
@5thcenturyad Oh, I thought you meant genocide is in "a lot of people dying" instead of "some nazi whiners being sad there's black people around". But yeah, I can understand you, it must be hard to see so many different kinds of people every day if you don't like them. You're probably scared. I would be too, if I was racist. Anti-racism is everywhere! :(
@StAngersucks No, not fear just hatred against sad brain-washed idiots like you, what u call "anti-racism" exists in the Western mass-media yet despite its efforts i.e. decades of anti-White propaganda the BNP are by far the fastest growing party in the UK. I see the occupation of my homeland as a challange to be defeated and ultimately destroyed and not by "whiners" but by armed resistance. I have no intention of discussing my involvement with these preparations. END OF DISCUSSION
@5thcenturyad Well, yeah. Some people are clever and see the problems for what they are. Like you and Anders Breivik, our biggest hero! Yeah, fuck everyone who's not white! :)
Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.
Wagner first conceived the work in April 1857 but it was not finished until twenty-five years later
@Napoleontas Instead of going on about the Jews you should be doing something about your channel as the titles of the videos are very difficult to read due to your obsession with Napoleon. If Napoleon was alive today he wouldn't be very pleased with what you're doing to people's eyes.
We shouldn't confuse being a great artist with being a saint. All great art is about the complexities of the human condition, including all the unsavoury stuff that we much prefer to forget about. That is what art is, and it isn't always "nice," but we would be much worse off without it.
Perhaps when he was starting out like most of us if we are confronted with imesurable obsticles we hate who or whatever got in our way. MaI remind all semites or not the During wagner's visit to Paris Mayerbeer was in total control producing a new opera every week. Wagner' s wonderful Flying Dutchman was ridiculed simply because ther was no ballet in the second act..
Now we can surly understand his feelings when most of his audience shouted and walked or ran out of the opera house.
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. Wagner changed opera forever with Tristan and what about the ' leit motif ' ?. When people I know who are not remotely interested in classical music ask me about Wagner I just hum the music to Jaws ' when the shark is about to pounce ' and I say ' what do you think of when you hear that ? ' and they say ' the shark in Jaws ' and I say ' Wagner invented that.
Barenboim Himself has now set about recanting on the Wagner-antisemite-bashing business, and truly, I am able to find nothing explicitly antisemetic about Wagner or his statements. At the same time Barenboim was there at LaScala opening nite giving pre-concert lectures about the need to kick Burlesconi out of Italy (See New York Times article: LaScala, The Political Event, 12-10-2010) while outside the jewish-funded Anarchist/Antifa (anti-fascist) automatons were setting more cop cars on fire.
Actually, I agree. I think it's important, though, that we (1) not discount Herr Wagner's nearly pathological narcissism and other idiosyncracies and (2) not make a Star Wars-like quasi religion in everything he wrote and said. And I'm a Wagnerian! But we need to keep him and his times in context.
This is sooo beautiful..Thank You. I cannot understand why on every video of Wagners operas there is always debate about antisemitism etc. Wagner is considered to be the greatest opera composer-he created complex musical dramas not some pop like melodies easy remembering arias.He is difficult to conduct,hard to sing,hard to understand sometimes and thats make him beautiful.He is placed no 4 on composers of all time list & the best romantic composers of all time.He can scare you and make you cry.
So many very good jewish artists , director or songer have got so many dollars interpretaing Wagner... Maybe Wagner has neen wrong with his antisemitics comments ... Wagner still remains a genius...
I can say that being not jew! I reconize the value!
I can see that the opera has suedo Christian themes in the Knights quest of the Holy grail, representative of the quest for purity over profanity as well as the punishment for sexual immorality. At what point is it anti Jewish?
I am new to Opera and have tickets to go see Parsifal at the ENO. I keep reading that this opera is supposed to be antisemtic. Why? Perhaps Wagner was a racist and his music listened to by Hitler. But As someone who wasn't aware of all this cultural baggage he and his music had, reading up on this opera alone, I see nothing anti jewish about it. If I am ignorant of something please someone enlighten me!
Screw all of your politics... music transcends thought, emotion, and instinct. Gurnemanz is singing about transcendental forgiveness and the lyricism and architecture of the composition compound and reinforce the argument. It is beyond dissection and that is why we still are fascinated by it.
@CrimeReport It says what is on the tip of every bodies tongue... Wagner was right... Down to the letter he was right about it all, we can only hope that it is not to late...
FINALLY--a set/costumes not influenced by that evil genie Patrice Chereau who makes factories/victorian mansions out of Wagner's detailed operas--for his own warped sensibilites. I doubly thank the director here who had the courage to stand up to the techno thugs who are ruining Wagner's operas world wide. The medieval set is lovely and our EYES can enter the drama as well as our ears. R. Wagner would be proud of this production AS HE ENVISIONED IT.
The insight that our actors are more deserving of admiration than ever does not imply that they are any less dangerous.— But who could still doubt what I want—what are the three demands for which my wrath, my concern, my love of art has this time opened my mouth?
That the theater should not lord it over the arts.
That the actor should not seduce those who are authentic.
Anthony Tommasini, music critic for the NY Times, put it best: "Wagner was an awful man who wrote music of astounding beauty and piercing truth. That is the enigma of art."
1. IC lots of Jews in my town and at least half have above average-sized noses...FACT
2. Unlike every other race in the history of humkanity, those sneaky Jews have had the AUDACITY to organise a military and shamelessly use it to their own ends.
3. We all like to get ahead in life...FACT but pursuing wealth AND power? I mean, come on...
1. IC lots of Jews in my town and at least half have above average-sized noses...FACT
2. Unlike every other race in the history of humkanity, those sneaky Jews have had the AUDACITY to organise a military and shamelessly use it to their own ends.
3. We all like to get ahead in life...FACT but pursuing wealth AND power? I mean, come on...
If Wagner had been an alchemist who discovered a vaccine that cured an epidemic deadly disease I am sure you would not refuse it. Then why refuse this wonderful gift that was left by him?
(I saw the Parsifal last week in Bayreuth [under the direction of Stefan Herheim] and I must say that I could not recognize any scene of the libretto there.
But this production here is really fantastic. Thank you for sharing).
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Moll is/was a great Gurnemanz, notice the slight pause at 7:50 first done by Knappertsbusch; Levine implemented those pauses when conducting Wagner, another being the one in Gotterdamerung at the end, first seen by Solti. This opera has nothing to do with the ideological crap below. It's fabulous music telling the story of compassion through suffering and humility.
All the Jews to the stern, and then later in the stern of my vagina the entire buttocks of a Jewish baby and since then, I will open my body every hole, and at the same time, vomiting, defecation, urination and ejaculation will ask my vagina is dog feces and more
noticed the expansion of your vocabulary- you have not used the word "excrement" before....congratulations! Good on you!
One quick advise though: Jewish and Yiddish is unfortunately not the same. There is still a lot you need to learn in order to become a professional anti- Semit.
@Amfortaz You can disable the comments section of vids you post.- but not of other vids that people post. Yeah the people below are not worthy of viewing thier comments- and i've had to deal with folks like that before. I just ignore it.
A memorable scene with top-flight protagonists. Jerusalem's uncle, Herbert Becker was Portland's Tristan and Florestan back in the 70's. Kurt Moll remains in a class by himself...but the role of Gurnemanz! The greatest windbag in operatic history...putting even King Marke to shame!
This is a Metropolitan Opera production from the early 90s.They used the same production from Bayreuth in the early 80s.Levine's tempi are horribly slow compared with Horst Stein's Bayreuth production. Jerusalem sings Parsifal in both productions but he is much better in Bayreuth, 12 or 13 years earlier. Get Stein's version in DVD. It is much better.
In any case Wagner was more of a Christian than most priests are.
Apart from supporting Schopenhauer's critic of optimism in Christianity he did repeat his ring message here, namely that superior people shouldn't seek recognition from inferior people, because that only leads to bad consequences for everyone involved.
Wagner's works are simply breathtaking. This opening scene of Act III are actually my second favorite piece of music. I would not view Wagner as a hypocrite. Rather realize that many people live under the banner of Christianity, even Adolf Hitler who championed Wagner as a father of the German people and the Aryan race. As always take everything with a grain of salt. Some of his ideals and themes may be in bad taste but that does not necessarily effect the beauty of the Music.
Many people of that time claimed to follow the Christian faith, it was a very political thing to do. Wagner was obviously not a true follower of Jesus. He was a serious anti-semite and a prophet in that he had forseen the rise of German nationalism and the socialist and anti-semetic culture that was to grow out from the early 20th century. I do not think that as a musician or music listener you should allow that to completely impact your view on his music.
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Did Wagner believe in god? He did write Der Ring (about Norse gods) too. Both Parsifal and Der Ring are great music, but I do not hope Wagner was a religious person. How can one be a Christian (to live in the spirit and by the ways of Jesus Christ) and at the same time be hateful of others? The fact that something (like Jew bashing) is mainstream, is no excuse for doing it! I personally am disgusted by the hypocrisy of Wagner's 'faith' (if real), however great the music.
given i love all three but when it comes to counterpoint, wagner could compose circles around them, wagner had more talent in his little toe than Liszt and Berlioz had in their whole body!! i word for you!! Gesamtkunstwerk!!!!
Are a bunch of total idiots??????? Every other European ( except for the Jews of course) was antisemetic in the Romantic Period. Wagner´s view of Jews is totally irrelevant here. What matters is his musical genius. The Good Friday music is amongst the most beautiful music ever written, performed here with excellent singers. So please just enjoy it and stop this idiotic intolerable whining about antisemitism.
@stefanbassi AMEN! There was a great programme on Wagner last night on BBC 4, and the narrator, Stephen Fry, who is Jewish, said in essence that he would not surrender his love of the music of Wagner to 'him' in reference to Hitler. It's past time we got over the popularly perceived 'stain' on Wagner and enjoy him for the pure genius and life-bettering qualities of his brilliant music.
@stefanbassi Correct! Wagner posed as anti-semetic, but most of his best friends, singers and conductors were Jewish. He adored Lili Lehmann and his finest, favorite conductor for Parsifal was Jewish. Etc etc..... What's the problem with these nitwits here?
@stefanbassi I did not listen to Wagner music for a long time because of the antisemitic association. I was a fool. Once I heard the overture to Renzi and Tannhauser I was hooked. The pilgrims chorus, divine. These operas are amazing master pieces. Wagner did amazing things for music and theater which later inspired cinema theaters and film scoring. People must let go of their own prejudices against him. As a society we are in a place to know better than what Wagner could.
@stefanbassi Wagner himself bashed, for instance, Mendelssohn's music for the fact that Mendelssohn was Jewish ALONE. No matter what kind of music Mendelssohn made, Wagner would hate it for the sole reason that Mendelssohn was Jewish. I think Wagner's views of Jews can justifiably stand in the way of our appreciation for his music, since Wagner himself let his views stand in the way of him appreciating the great music Jewish composers wrote.
@gwaur But how cna music be considered bad because of the composer? The music itself, detched from the composer, is not bad.
Try this little trick. Pretend someone other than Wagner, someone not anti-Jew, wrote it. If you find yourself saying anything different, then perhaps we are right when we say you cannot evaluate the music ITSELF based upon the composer.
@Mirani2 That is true, good music is good music no matter who made it. But Wagner didn't think so, which shows that he probably wasn't a reasonable person, at least in some areas of life. So I'll change what I said:
Wagner's views can justifiably stand in the way of our appreciation of Wagner himself. :P
The man, Wagner as a citizen of the world was quite deporable in many ways. His antisemitism can never be condoned. However, he was a musical genius. His work changed music forever. I love and I immerse myself in his operas. They are an incredible gift to mankind.
As citizen of world? Sorry that doesnt exist Wagner was a german nationalistic and revolunoraty for me in all aspects he was great a true german patriot and a genius in art
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OMG wie komme ich denn zu DIESEM kranken scheyß! Wie kann man nur so beknatzt sein sich diesen shit reinzuziehn! was ist die welt doch vielfältig.... kuckt doch mal unter "goa" , die machen auch gute musik. hehehehe. gott bin breit ich komm ja gaanich darauf klar... hm naja es geht die musik, hab schon besseres gehört ehrlich gesagt.
I would not say just the best Germanic composer... He was a musical genious, not a wonderchild, but a Genious!
He wrote a book "Das Judenthum in der Musik" but he had nothing to do with Nazism, his friends were revolutionary comunist anarchists like Bakunin (who translated Marx's manifest), he hated the power of industry and leading classes, so totaly different ideals.
It is his music who brings the drama of his life into wonderful melodies!
The point is, humanity has yet to stand on higher peaks than Wagner has shown us, save perhaps by Mahler or Copeland, comparable geniuses of his craft. For that we should not bury our heads in the sand every time we hear his besmirched name spoken. Without Wagner, one cannot understand the progression of the German symphonic tradition from Mozart to Schoenberg...nor can one understand much of modern European culture, from Shaw to Nietzsche to Eliot.
This music is still holy to me, Hitler notwithstanding). Anyways, let it rest! You can't discredit a composer by his political ideas; he is not famous by virtue of his ideas, he is famous for his musical creations. Besides, his ideas were half-baked and only realized (admittedly, in the most virulent way) a half century later. Hitler--not Wagner--stared at the choices before him and chose to do the most devastating harm.
I fail to see how you can consider Wagner's political notions as even remotely similar to Hitler's. Much less that they were "realized" by him.
Furthermore, I think it is really insulting to a composer of Opera to just dismiss the ideas it tries to express but approve of the music. Wagner even said that the music is just a means while the expression is the end.
I was speaking particularly of his well-known, well-documented anti-Semitism. That is, after all, why he is disparaged even today. As to whether or what degree Wagner's utopian-socials ideals presaged Nat'l Socialism--that is a scholarly debate volumes thick that I have neither time nor inclination to debate. My point was only that we cannot let an artist's personal bigotries discredit his entire body of work. Even if one disagrees with the "end," there is much to appreciate in the "means."
Peace. Will this dreadful discussion about Hitler go on until the end of mankind? By the way, Hitler's favorite opera was "Tiefland", believe it or not.
Well, I never said that the liking of "Tiefland" has anything to do with being a fascist. I like the opera myself, but what could that simple story have to do with fascism anyway??
Few classical singers are good actors on stage, and even though Ms Meier has virtually no vocal lines in this spectacular last act of Parsifal, what an acting job she does. Some versions of Parsifal have Kundry live, but that misses Wagner's point.
Ms Meier has a biographical DVD I recommend: "I Follow a Voice Within Me." I bit expensive but essential for those who love Ms Meier.
The Grail The Grail we seek the Grail. It is a shame that people always associate Wagner with Hitler he was possibley the best Germanic composser aside from Schuman,Schubert,Meldhesohn,Beethoven and Mozart.
Hitler's vegetarianism is a total myth based on the fact that his doctors told him he should follow a vegetarian diet from time to time because of digestive disorder from which he suffered. He didn't suffer enough though
Hitler was a vegetarian, as was Gandhi. The only logical conclusion is that, where vegetarianism can occasionally lead to mass genocide, it can also sometimes result in becoming a icon of peaceful protest. Hmmm...
My own opinion is that if God didn't want me to consume animals, then he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
But this is all irrelevant to Wagner who, insane or no, is unquestionably one of the greatest composers of music in the Western tradition.
Hitler made up the rules and changed them as the war went on and as he knew he was losing the war.
He made a-lot of laws etc and then broke nearly each one of them to save face. He was brilliant, he just happened to be at the right place at the right time. German's were destitude after WW1, he knew it, chose the Jews as a scapegoat and lined his pockets with cash the whole time. Parsifal was not banned by the Nazis, he embraced it as he did Loengren etc.
So? If Hitler liked chocolate ice cream then is bad or is there anything bad about it? The music is wonderfull, who cares who liked it or what political issue was attached AFTER. You should learn how to think.
I dont want you to think another way than the logical one. This is an art piece, even if the composer had some kind of hidden agenda the music is incredible, and should be regarded as that, not as a tool from a guy that come years later.
Pour information, le chanteur en blanc s'appelle Siegfried Jerusalem. Il a beaucoup chanté Wagner. c'est un bariton qui monte très haut! Parcifal est le dernier, le plus "minimaliste" et pour certains, le plus abouti des opéras de Wagner (beaucoup de choeurs à l'unisson par exemple). Une grande noblesse dans la composition et les airs.
Avec l'Enchantement du Vendredi Saint, on touche l'un des plus hauts sommets de la Musique occidentale. A suivre livret en main, ce passage est d'une poesie vertigineuse... En fait tout Parsifal est mystique, poesie et lumiere.
Et oui Wagner, n'est pas du tout la caricature que la grande majorité des gens s'en font. Il faut écouter avant d'en parler, (sur You Tube par exemple) et une monde sonore merveilleux, dont vous ne pouvez imaginer la beauté, s'ouvrira à vous!
C'est vrai, mais Wagner était un person contradictoire. L'anneau, par instance, dit que la civilisation francaise est un system fait par et pour des hommes inférieurs impropre pour les allemands.
Kurt Moll's singing in the famous DG Karajan recording is one of the truly great things in music I think. This (slow) extract does not do him justice. I agree about the telly-tubby set. How can such sublime grandeur be betrayed so persistently by producers & directors?
dat is mir neu....isch dachte immer, der wachner wär' auch schauspieler jewesen, datt hat der nietzsche friederich immer behauptet....die musik is klasse, aber dat statuarische jetue...neee, malwida....un ' wie die wies' da aussieht...sin' dat alles schmetterlinge, datt weiße zeuch, oder wat is dat ???
wie hat der doch so schön jesacht: wat war der richard waachner ? da stelle mir uns e'mal janz dumm un saren, der waachner, datt war ene musiker....aber eben nit nur...
Esta es la mejor version disponible en DVD de Parsifal, respetuosa con la escenografia y lo que Wagner queria para su correcta representacion. Lo edita Deutsche Grammophon. Version del MET dirigida por James Levine.
Only can i not understand English but neither too good can I having been understanding the Deutsch, whereas, in the latter years Wagner held me close with these rapturous and nigh on immaculate musics
Diese Stelle soll nicht mitreißend sein, sondern anrührend. Levine dirigiert das völlig richtig.
Es geht um Erlösung, Aufhebung des Willens, Frieden. Werk vollbracht und ab in die Kiste. (In Wagners Fall im doppelten Sinne via Hotelbett in Venedig, naja, egal.)
this is (or was) the modern-day Trifecta for Parsifal - though I agree that Levine does not help. Not for slowness, in general, but for the inability to speed it up, ever. Only Kna' seems to have been able to sustain even at glacial speeds.
I just love Wagner's music. He is so intense!
borgesvive 1 month ago
Are you a complete idiot?... I said "END OF DISCUSSION"... In other words stop sending me messages.... Most people who come to this video want to listen to the music not read a political debate between a Patriot and a left-wing idiot. So for their sake you will now be blocked.
5thcenturyad 1 month ago
desde que conoci a wagner, mi vida se ilumino nuevamente por un sol mas brillante y poderoso. su musica se convirtio en un renovado espiritu en mi ser.. quien no sienta eso en su corazon al igual que yo , no conoce la felicidad.
crismarcel76 4 months ago
Wagner was doing his best to portray deep truths about the human quest to the world's people. This music can speak equally to anyone who lets it. The people keeping racism alive now are only those who keep discussing it. Wagner as an ego was insuperior to Wagner as an artist, plain and simple. Now please, we need to unite under this magnificant beacon of truth. It really isn't that hard, it's in our nature.
opuspocus5553 6 months ago
@opuspocus5553 People do not need to "keep racism alive". Every living thing is naturally predisposed to prefer its own kind. I am of Euroic race and like any sane European I prefer My own race to any other. If that makes Me racist according to your definition then I'm proud to be racist. I do not approve of Wagners anti-semitism, but if he were alive today he would be utterly horrified by the multicultural holocaust now taking place in Western Europe.
5thcenturyad 4 months ago
@5thcenturyad Oh, keep your proud european thoughts to yourself, thank you.
StAngersucks 1 month ago
@StAngersucks Keep your mindless regurgitation of social-marxist oppression to yourself. If you love censorship and the complete denial of free speech so much then watch any TV channel, listen to any radio station or read any daily newspaper in the Western World.... The internet is the last bastion of free speech in the West. As you are so offended by freedom of thought I advise you to stay away from it.
5thcenturyad 1 month ago
@5thcenturyad Freedom of speech allows me to call your racism destructive and silly. Censorship and disagreement is not the same thing.
StAngersucks 1 month ago
@StAngersucks Freedom of speach allows me to call the insane twisted ideology that you support destructive and downright genocidal.
5thcenturyad 1 month ago
@5thcenturyad Oh, I must have missed the genocides among all those genocides executed by nationalists. Can you please refresh my memory with some genocides initiated by a non-proud, non-nationalist, non-racist organization?
StAngersucks 1 month ago
@StAngersucks Yes I can, the worst genocide in human history the one that's taking place right now throughout Western Europe and most White countries on Earth. It's commonly known as "multiculturalism". In reality this means flooding White countries with millions of non-White 3rd world colonists. Here in the UK the pakistani women produce 8 times as many children as White women. Most demographers now predict Whites will soon be a minority here. Watch "White Genocide" on youtube.
5thcenturyad 1 month ago
@5thcenturyad Oh, I thought you meant genocide is in "a lot of people dying" instead of "some nazi whiners being sad there's black people around". But yeah, I can understand you, it must be hard to see so many different kinds of people every day if you don't like them. You're probably scared. I would be too, if I was racist. Anti-racism is everywhere! :(
StAngersucks 1 month ago
@StAngersucks No, not fear just hatred against sad brain-washed idiots like you, what u call "anti-racism" exists in the Western mass-media yet despite its efforts i.e. decades of anti-White propaganda the BNP are by far the fastest growing party in the UK. I see the occupation of my homeland as a challange to be defeated and ultimately destroyed and not by "whiners" but by armed resistance. I have no intention of discussing my involvement with these preparations. END OF DISCUSSION
5thcenturyad 1 month ago 2
@5thcenturyad Well, yeah. Some people are clever and see the problems for what they are. Like you and Anders Breivik, our biggest hero! Yeah, fuck everyone who's not white! :)
StAngersucks 1 month ago
@StAngersucks Anders Breivik was a Zionist traitor.
Certainly no one to be emulated!
OldSchopenhauer 1 month ago
If Wagner were alive today, he'd have a 6 picture deal with Warner Brothers.
bshieldsbb01 6 months ago
(I appreciate Wikipaedia's contributions in the descriptions on previous comment)
MrFerminleon 6 months ago
Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.
Wagner first conceived the work in April 1857 but it was not finished until twenty-five years later
MrFerminleon 7 months ago
DAMN DAMN why the poster let those Jews pollute that video?
The sacred Wagnerian music having Jewish comments beneath it, a sacrilege.
Napoleontas 7 months ago
@Napoleontas Instead of going on about the Jews you should be doing something about your channel as the titles of the videos are very difficult to read due to your obsession with Napoleon. If Napoleon was alive today he wouldn't be very pleased with what you're doing to people's eyes.
lewars1912 1 month ago
We shouldn't confuse being a great artist with being a saint. All great art is about the complexities of the human condition, including all the unsavoury stuff that we much prefer to forget about. That is what art is, and it isn't always "nice," but we would be much worse off without it.
Matt75003 7 months ago
Listen and enjoy - this music is moving, emotional, amazing.... So listen and enjoy, period!
TTTrixie 7 months ago
Perhaps when he was starting out like most of us if we are confronted with imesurable obsticles we hate who or whatever got in our way. MaI remind all semites or not the During wagner's visit to Paris Mayerbeer was in total control producing a new opera every week. Wagner' s wonderful Flying Dutchman was ridiculed simply because ther was no ballet in the second act..
Now we can surly understand his feelings when most of his audience shouted and walked or ran out of the opera house.
Music3840 8 months ago
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. Wagner changed opera forever with Tristan and what about the ' leit motif ' ?. When people I know who are not remotely interested in classical music ask me about Wagner I just hum the music to Jaws ' when the shark is about to pounce ' and I say ' what do you think of when you hear that ? ' and they say ' the shark in Jaws ' and I say ' Wagner invented that.
wagner8923 9 months ago
You people trying to dodge around the REASON behind antisemitism in THE WEST are laughable.
It goes to show how much you people know about the contrast between the culture of the west and western man, and that of the culture of the Jews.
They are completely opposite.
OR DO YOU PEOPLE REALLY BELIEVE THEY WERE ALL SICK IN THE HEAD, AND WE HAVE BEEN CURED IN THIS ERA?
Children. You are all children who cowardly kow-tow to a status quo in this era, just as you'd be 'antisemitic' in that era.
Baseliner 10 months ago
Aquellos que discuten cosas que están fuera de lugar, lo único que logran es demostrar su falta de cultura y su visión tan cerrada ante el arte.
jesusjuanpablo 10 months ago
Aquellos que discuten cosas que están fuera de lugar, lo único que logran es demostrar su falta de cultura y su visión tan cerrada ante el arte.
jesusjuanpablo 10 months ago
Barenboim Himself has now set about recanting on the Wagner-antisemite-bashing business, and truly, I am able to find nothing explicitly antisemetic about Wagner or his statements. At the same time Barenboim was there at LaScala opening nite giving pre-concert lectures about the need to kick Burlesconi out of Italy (See New York Times article: LaScala, The Political Event, 12-10-2010) while outside the jewish-funded Anarchist/Antifa (anti-fascist) automatons were setting more cop cars on fire.
brucewileshain 10 months ago
Grazie, you tube!!! All the pleasure you give me!!!!
biarepetto 11 months ago
Actually, I agree. I think it's important, though, that we (1) not discount Herr Wagner's nearly pathological narcissism and other idiosyncracies and (2) not make a Star Wars-like quasi religion in everything he wrote and said. And I'm a Wagnerian! But we need to keep him and his times in context.
timparcival 11 months ago
This is sooo beautiful..Thank You. I cannot understand why on every video of Wagners operas there is always debate about antisemitism etc. Wagner is considered to be the greatest opera composer-he created complex musical dramas not some pop like melodies easy remembering arias.He is difficult to conduct,hard to sing,hard to understand sometimes and thats make him beautiful.He is placed no 4 on composers of all time list & the best romantic composers of all time.He can scare you and make you cry.
ArchiducDeBelgrade 11 months ago 7
@ArchiducDeBelgrade I would say number 1, but it is a matter of opinion
Napoleontas 3 months ago
Wolfsschanze..
brunoblood 1 year ago
w w w. hnk.hr/ en/ opera/ parsifal
OberonZg 1 year ago
So many very good jewish artists , director or songer have got so many dollars interpretaing Wagner... Maybe Wagner has neen wrong with his antisemitics comments ... Wagner still remains a genius...
I can say that being not jew! I reconize the value!
clytemnestre1 1 year ago
Fuck politics, fuck nationalism, fuck antisemitism, fuck nazis, fuck Hitler, fuck Christians, fuck! For once, just listen to the music fuckheads!
vampiressae 1 year ago
@vampiressae you want a lollipop?
kamikaze88HH 11 months ago
I can see that the opera has suedo Christian themes in the Knights quest of the Holy grail, representative of the quest for purity over profanity as well as the punishment for sexual immorality. At what point is it anti Jewish?
walkcordatus 1 year ago
I am new to Opera and have tickets to go see Parsifal at the ENO. I keep reading that this opera is supposed to be antisemtic. Why? Perhaps Wagner was a racist and his music listened to by Hitler. But As someone who wasn't aware of all this cultural baggage he and his music had, reading up on this opera alone, I see nothing anti jewish about it. If I am ignorant of something please someone enlighten me!
walkcordatus 1 year ago
Screw all of your politics... music transcends thought, emotion, and instinct. Gurnemanz is singing about transcendental forgiveness and the lyricism and architecture of the composition compound and reinforce the argument. It is beyond dissection and that is why we still are fascinated by it.
theropodia 1 year ago 2
All I learn from the comments here is that the Nazis had fantastic taste and the current anti-nazis have no taste in all. What does that say?
CrimeReport 1 year ago
@CrimeReport It says what is on the tip of every bodies tongue... Wagner was right... Down to the letter he was right about it all, we can only hope that it is not to late...
Gargantupimp 1 year ago
FINALLY--a set/costumes not influenced by that evil genie Patrice Chereau who makes factories/victorian mansions out of Wagner's detailed operas--for his own warped sensibilites. I doubly thank the director here who had the courage to stand up to the techno thugs who are ruining Wagner's operas world wide. The medieval set is lovely and our EYES can enter the drama as well as our ears. R. Wagner would be proud of this production AS HE ENVISIONED IT.
windstorm1000 1 year ago 3
Wonderful
cyclonesupercell 1 year ago
Wonderful !
cyclonesupercell 1 year ago
The insight that our actors are more deserving of admiration than ever does not imply that they are any less dangerous.— But who could still doubt what I want—what are the three demands for which my wrath, my concern, my love of art has this time opened my mouth?
That the theater should not lord it over the arts.
That the actor should not seduce those who are authentic.
That music should not become an art of lying.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
nietzschele 1 year ago
Anthony Tommasini, music critic for the NY Times, put it best: "Wagner was an awful man who wrote music of astounding beauty and piercing truth. That is the enigma of art."
scopophilia79 1 year ago
@scopophilia79 The great enigma and one difficult to discuss with students.....
rumpwrestler 1 year ago
@scopophilia79 Wagner wasn't such a awful man, People just have to say that to avoid persecution by the Jews who own the NY Times. btw.
Gargantupimp 1 year ago
Jesus is a Jew. His mother Mary is a Jew. All the early Christians were Jews.
I am tired of injectiing the Jewish question into every aspect of modern life.
Is McDonald"s Jewish?
jack60091 1 year ago
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OMG@Richie W and all his Jewish mates
1. IC lots of Jews in my town and at least half have above average-sized noses...FACT
2. Unlike every other race in the history of humkanity, those sneaky Jews have had the AUDACITY to organise a military and shamelessly use it to their own ends.
3. We all like to get ahead in life...FACT but pursuing wealth AND power? I mean, come on...
4. Did I mention the noses?...
5. Er...
6. That's it...
ringolem 1 year ago
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OMG@Richie W and all his Jewish mates
1. IC lots of Jews in my town and at least half have above average-sized noses...FACT
2. Unlike every other race in the history of humkanity, those sneaky Jews have had the AUDACITY to organise a military and shamelessly use it to their own ends.
3. We all like to get ahead in life...FACT but pursuing wealth AND power? I mean, come on...
4. Did I mention the noses?...
5. Er...
6. That's it
ringolem 1 year ago
Parsifal is perhaps the greatest artistic work of atheist religion.
JohnCougarMellowChim 1 year ago
If Wagner had been an alchemist who discovered a vaccine that cured an epidemic deadly disease I am sure you would not refuse it. Then why refuse this wonderful gift that was left by him?
ykaiilah 1 year ago 5
bravo moll e jerusalem !!!!!!!!!
msmoisesms 1 year ago
Heavenly...
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NovalisimBergwerk 1 year ago
Excellent production here !
(I saw the Parsifal last week in Bayreuth [under the direction of Stefan Herheim] and I must say that I could not recognize any scene of the libretto there.
But this production here is really fantastic. Thank you for sharing).
Mondego73 1 year ago
Calling all Wagner lovers… Hear Rene Papé, Gary Lehman and Violeta Urmana in a new recording of Wagner’s Parsifal with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky. Find out more on our channel ( mariinskylabel ) and go to the Mariinsky label website to hear some soundclips ( search for Mariinsky label )
mariinskylabel 1 year ago
Moll is/was a great Gurnemanz, notice the slight pause at 7:50 first done by Knappertsbusch; Levine implemented those pauses when conducting Wagner, another being the one in Gotterdamerung at the end, first seen by Solti. This opera has nothing to do with the ideological crap below. It's fabulous music telling the story of compassion through suffering and humility.
tennispro4408 1 year ago
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All the Jews to the stern, and then later in the stern of my vagina the entire buttocks of a Jewish baby and since then, I will open my body every hole, and at the same time, vomiting, defecation, urination and ejaculation will ask my vagina is dog feces and more
Gargantupimp 1 year ago
@Gargantupimp
Hi, FYI- this here is about music!
Could you please got to one of those insipid gangster rap or right wing extremist websites and run verbal riot over there?
Thanks, appreciated.
Fritzike 1 year ago 4
@Fritzike You will do to the stern, and you with yiddish in the stern will deficate on my excrement.
Gargantupimp 1 year ago
@Gargantupimp
Hello there, sure thing.....
noticed the expansion of your vocabulary- you have not used the word "excrement" before....congratulations! Good on you!
One quick advise though: Jewish and Yiddish is unfortunately not the same. There is still a lot you need to learn in order to become a professional anti- Semit.
Now bugger off. Cheers
Fritzike 1 year ago 3
For God sake, will people stop going on about the fucking Jews!!
MrBlahBlah1976 1 year ago 3
Just Wonderful - but why is there no notion? - directly - from which production this
scene was fetched? Question to YouTube!
Hessingen1 1 year ago
Will someone please tell me how I can turn off comments on Youtube? I am tired of reading such garbage.
Amfortaz 1 year ago 7
@Amfortaz You can disable the comments section of vids you post.- but not of other vids that people post. Yeah the people below are not worthy of viewing thier comments- and i've had to deal with folks like that before. I just ignore it.
sirmercutio99 3 weeks ago
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Why don't these guys stop there yappin and stab that Jew chick with the spear already and save Hitler some trouble.
Gargantupimp 1 year ago
Sublime part of eternity.
Hazazele 1 year ago 3
A memorable scene with top-flight protagonists. Jerusalem's uncle, Herbert Becker was Portland's Tristan and Florestan back in the 70's. Kurt Moll remains in a class by himself...but the role of Gurnemanz! The greatest windbag in operatic history...putting even King Marke to shame!
UncleNathan 1 year ago
Absolutely beautiful!
operalab 1 year ago
I love German composers!!!!
1379852456 1 year ago 3
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HIGH SCOOL MUSICAL 2 was better musicly
MrPontiusPilate 2 years ago
This is a Metropolitan Opera production from the early 90s.They used the same production from Bayreuth in the early 80s.Levine's tempi are horribly slow compared with Horst Stein's Bayreuth production. Jerusalem sings Parsifal in both productions but he is much better in Bayreuth, 12 or 13 years earlier. Get Stein's version in DVD. It is much better.
antoniosergiocunha 2 years ago
In any case Wagner was more of a Christian than most priests are.
Apart from supporting Schopenhauer's critic of optimism in Christianity he did repeat his ring message here, namely that superior people shouldn't seek recognition from inferior people, because that only leads to bad consequences for everyone involved.
"Das wird dich wenig mühn;
auf Botschaft sendet sich's nicht mehr;
Kräuter und Wurzeln
findet ein jeder sich selbst,
wir lernten's im Walde vom Tier."
EinFremderAusElea 2 years ago 4
Shove your Schopenauer you pretentious twat.
RVP57 2 years ago
I guess it takes one to know one...
EinFremderAusElea 2 years ago
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@EinFremderAusElea Of course! Superior Aryans should never seek recognition from inferior Juden!!! Long live the Musik of Vagner!!
Gargantupimp 1 year ago
Wagner's works are simply breathtaking. This opening scene of Act III are actually my second favorite piece of music. I would not view Wagner as a hypocrite. Rather realize that many people live under the banner of Christianity, even Adolf Hitler who championed Wagner as a father of the German people and the Aryan race. As always take everything with a grain of salt. Some of his ideals and themes may be in bad taste but that does not necessarily effect the beauty of the Music.
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Many people of that time claimed to follow the Christian faith, it was a very political thing to do. Wagner was obviously not a true follower of Jesus. He was a serious anti-semite and a prophet in that he had forseen the rise of German nationalism and the socialist and anti-semetic culture that was to grow out from the early 20th century. I do not think that as a musician or music listener you should allow that to completely impact your view on his music.
07gumbi 2 years ago
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Did Wagner believe in god? He did write Der Ring (about Norse gods) too. Both Parsifal and Der Ring are great music, but I do not hope Wagner was a religious person. How can one be a Christian (to live in the spirit and by the ways of Jesus Christ) and at the same time be hateful of others? The fact that something (like Jew bashing) is mainstream, is no excuse for doing it! I personally am disgusted by the hypocrisy of Wagner's 'faith' (if real), however great the music.
WhiteMaleTube 2 years ago
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wagner is a cheater : he copied Liszt and Berlioz styles.
Berlioz and Liszt are great composers, not wagner.
896423658 2 years ago
given i love all three but when it comes to counterpoint, wagner could compose circles around them, wagner had more talent in his little toe than Liszt and Berlioz had in their whole body!! i word for you!! Gesamtkunstwerk!!!!
saraswatikaruna 2 years ago 6
I cannot agree more
And I like Berlioz and Liszt a lot though lol
xav71176 2 years ago
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WhiteMaleTube 2 years ago
Are a bunch of total idiots??????? Every other European ( except for the Jews of course) was antisemetic in the Romantic Period. Wagner´s view of Jews is totally irrelevant here. What matters is his musical genius. The Good Friday music is amongst the most beautiful music ever written, performed here with excellent singers. So please just enjoy it and stop this idiotic intolerable whining about antisemitism.
stefanbassi 2 years ago 105
I really agree with you...
Wagner is wagner---stop
camello35 2 years ago 2
@stefanbassi AMEN! There was a great programme on Wagner last night on BBC 4, and the narrator, Stephen Fry, who is Jewish, said in essence that he would not surrender his love of the music of Wagner to 'him' in reference to Hitler. It's past time we got over the popularly perceived 'stain' on Wagner and enjoy him for the pure genius and life-bettering qualities of his brilliant music.
RVP57 1 year ago
@stefanbassi Correct! Wagner posed as anti-semetic, but most of his best friends, singers and conductors were Jewish. He adored Lili Lehmann and his finest, favorite conductor for Parsifal was Jewish. Etc etc..... What's the problem with these nitwits here?
rumpwrestler 1 year ago
@stefanbassi I did not listen to Wagner music for a long time because of the antisemitic association. I was a fool. Once I heard the overture to Renzi and Tannhauser I was hooked. The pilgrims chorus, divine. These operas are amazing master pieces. Wagner did amazing things for music and theater which later inspired cinema theaters and film scoring. People must let go of their own prejudices against him. As a society we are in a place to know better than what Wagner could.
ykaiilah 1 year ago
@stefanbassi Wagner himself bashed, for instance, Mendelssohn's music for the fact that Mendelssohn was Jewish ALONE. No matter what kind of music Mendelssohn made, Wagner would hate it for the sole reason that Mendelssohn was Jewish. I think Wagner's views of Jews can justifiably stand in the way of our appreciation for his music, since Wagner himself let his views stand in the way of him appreciating the great music Jewish composers wrote.
gwaur 10 months ago
@gwaur But how cna music be considered bad because of the composer? The music itself, detched from the composer, is not bad.
Try this little trick. Pretend someone other than Wagner, someone not anti-Jew, wrote it. If you find yourself saying anything different, then perhaps we are right when we say you cannot evaluate the music ITSELF based upon the composer.
Mirani2 7 months ago
@Mirani2 That is true, good music is good music no matter who made it. But Wagner didn't think so, which shows that he probably wasn't a reasonable person, at least in some areas of life. So I'll change what I said:
Wagner's views can justifiably stand in the way of our appreciation of Wagner himself. :P
gwaur 7 months ago
The man, Wagner as a citizen of the world was quite deporable in many ways. His antisemitism can never be condoned. However, he was a musical genius. His work changed music forever. I love and I immerse myself in his operas. They are an incredible gift to mankind.
hstn2guys 2 years ago
As citizen of world? Sorry that doesnt exist Wagner was a german nationalistic and revolunoraty for me in all aspects he was great a true german patriot and a genius in art
ImperialGuard9001 2 years ago 7
Why cannot it be condoned?
JimmyC1983 2 years ago
Ah, Siegfried Jerusalem: Truly a great singer, especially for Wagner.
odinnshred 2 years ago 9
yes SJ was but what happened to his voice now?
TheTristan1954 2 years ago
the woman is beautiful
markmando333 2 years ago 2
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Jersarem is not good for this music
goodgood001 2 years ago
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OMG wie komme ich denn zu DIESEM kranken scheyß! Wie kann man nur so beknatzt sein sich diesen shit reinzuziehn! was ist die welt doch vielfältig.... kuckt doch mal unter "goa" , die machen auch gute musik. hehehehe. gott bin breit ich komm ja gaanich darauf klar... hm naja es geht die musik, hab schon besseres gehört ehrlich gesagt.
Idhrenar 2 years ago
Sirknight1797 you haven't mentioned Bach!!!
I would not say just the best Germanic composer... He was a musical genious, not a wonderchild, but a Genious!
He wrote a book "Das Judenthum in der Musik" but he had nothing to do with Nazism, his friends were revolutionary comunist anarchists like Bakunin (who translated Marx's manifest), he hated the power of industry and leading classes, so totaly different ideals.
It is his music who brings the drama of his life into wonderful melodies!
stopthatnoise 2 years ago 4
Dise Interpretation ist klasse!
Paukowitsch 2 years ago 2
GRAN OBRA DE WAGNER
jorgealbertobaron 2 years ago 2
The point is, humanity has yet to stand on higher peaks than Wagner has shown us, save perhaps by Mahler or Copeland, comparable geniuses of his craft. For that we should not bury our heads in the sand every time we hear his besmirched name spoken. Without Wagner, one cannot understand the progression of the German symphonic tradition from Mozart to Schoenberg...nor can one understand much of modern European culture, from Shaw to Nietzsche to Eliot.
montyconstantine2009 2 years ago 29
@montyconstantine2009 Copeland? Are you out of your mind? He's no where then or now or in the future.
rumpwrestler 1 year ago
This music is still holy to me, Hitler notwithstanding). Anyways, let it rest! You can't discredit a composer by his political ideas; he is not famous by virtue of his ideas, he is famous for his musical creations. Besides, his ideas were half-baked and only realized (admittedly, in the most virulent way) a half century later. Hitler--not Wagner--stared at the choices before him and chose to do the most devastating harm.
montyconstantine2009 2 years ago 3
I fail to see how you can consider Wagner's political notions as even remotely similar to Hitler's. Much less that they were "realized" by him.
Furthermore, I think it is really insulting to a composer of Opera to just dismiss the ideas it tries to express but approve of the music. Wagner even said that the music is just a means while the expression is the end.
truefakeness 2 years ago 4
I was speaking particularly of his well-known, well-documented anti-Semitism. That is, after all, why he is disparaged even today. As to whether or what degree Wagner's utopian-socials ideals presaged Nat'l Socialism--that is a scholarly debate volumes thick that I have neither time nor inclination to debate. My point was only that we cannot let an artist's personal bigotries discredit his entire body of work. Even if one disagrees with the "end," there is much to appreciate in the "means."
montyconstantine2009 2 years ago
ah...the sheeple are everywhere....
generalricardoleon 2 years ago
Yes they are--and making ignorant, presumptuous statements about people they don't know.
Decepticonqueror1 2 years ago
Well Wagner isn't guilty that Hitler loved him so much... :-D
RedskinBLN 2 years ago 3
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pmsacra 2 years ago
I agree!
stopthatnoise 2 years ago
Gosh, this is so beautiful!
aptcore59 2 years ago
Vagner is another world...mari
Janeisone 2 years ago
possibly...never heard of Vagner
Slayerplsko 2 years ago
Peace. Will this dreadful discussion about Hitler go on until the end of mankind? By the way, Hitler's favorite opera was "Tiefland", believe it or not.
Altonahh10 2 years ago
Tiefland is one of my favorites also for longtime and I'm antifascist, so look it has nothing to do with music
TheTristan1954 2 years ago
Well, I never said that the liking of "Tiefland" has anything to do with being a fascist. I like the opera myself, but what could that simple story have to do with fascism anyway??
Altonahh10 2 years ago
Re: Waltraud Meier:
Few classical singers are good actors on stage, and even though Ms Meier has virtually no vocal lines in this spectacular last act of Parsifal, what an acting job she does. Some versions of Parsifal have Kundry live, but that misses Wagner's point.
Ms Meier has a biographical DVD I recommend: "I Follow a Voice Within Me." I bit expensive but essential for those who love Ms Meier.
znamrennug 3 years ago
The Grail The Grail we seek the Grail. It is a shame that people always associate Wagner with Hitler he was possibley the best Germanic composser aside from Schuman,Schubert,Meldhesohn,Beethoven and Mozart.
Sirknight1797 3 years ago 4
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Real Art,Not Degenerate,Soul of Europe.
But unfortunately,Today's musics are very decadence:Jazz,Rap,etc.
Arts and Races Connected.This is the best important and unbeknown reality of the World.
If you want ''Know'' races,you must look theris Arts,Works and Cultures.
Every artwork ''respects'' that race's soul.
And,Wagner's Works are respecting the soul of ARYANS.
HitlerWasRight7 3 years ago
Hitler was a vegetarian, what should we do about vegetarianism now?
JOSEPHLIANG 3 years ago
Hitler's vegetarianism is a total myth based on the fact that his doctors told him he should follow a vegetarian diet from time to time because of digestive disorder from which he suffered. He didn't suffer enough though
lastritt 3 years ago
Hitler was a vegetarian, as was Gandhi. The only logical conclusion is that, where vegetarianism can occasionally lead to mass genocide, it can also sometimes result in becoming a icon of peaceful protest. Hmmm...
My own opinion is that if God didn't want me to consume animals, then he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
But this is all irrelevant to Wagner who, insane or no, is unquestionably one of the greatest composers of music in the Western tradition.
magdluke 3 years ago 2
Hitler was a vegetarian! What should we do about vegetarianism?
JOSEPHLIANG 3 years ago
Certainly one of the best parts of this opera.
Thanks for the upload.
znamrennug 3 years ago
Well said, I agree
Sirknight1797 3 years ago
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Adolf Hitler's favorite music and I think the music they chose for the Nazi party.
ChetCampbell72 3 years ago
Are you sure about this information?
I heard he hated this Drama because the connection to the Christianity.
The Mastersingers was not his favorite Drama because all german virtues?
Shoshas 3 years ago
Hitler made up the rules and changed them as the war went on and as he knew he was losing the war.
He made a-lot of laws etc and then broke nearly each one of them to save face. He was brilliant, he just happened to be at the right place at the right time. German's were destitude after WW1, he knew it, chose the Jews as a scapegoat and lined his pockets with cash the whole time. Parsifal was not banned by the Nazis, he embraced it as he did Loengren etc.
ChetCampbell72 3 years ago
Pray tell me what that has to do with Classical music?
Sirknight1797 3 years ago
LOL urban legend!
None of wagners operas were adopted by the nazi party.
And hitlers favorite opera was "rienzi"
divine604 3 years ago 3
Parsifal was actually banned under the Nazi regime.
DoYouLikeTaters 3 years ago 4
So? If Hitler liked chocolate ice cream then is bad or is there anything bad about it? The music is wonderfull, who cares who liked it or what political issue was attached AFTER. You should learn how to think.
HansHottest 3 years ago
Chocolate Ice Cream as opposed to a specific thing like this........that is a reach.
You WANT me to think is a specific way is more like it. Just like Germany in the 30's and 40's.
ChetCampbell72 3 years ago
I dont want you to think another way than the logical one. This is an art piece, even if the composer had some kind of hidden agenda the music is incredible, and should be regarded as that, not as a tool from a guy that come years later.
HansHottest 3 years ago 2
I can agree with that.
ChetCampbell72 3 years ago
All commenters should read "Desire,Disease and Death" by Michael and Linda Hutcheon instead of making irrelevant coments
AKSTERSKY 2 years ago
el monje se parece al alexis...pero de todos modos esta bueno
alaricoIII 3 years ago
Pour information, le chanteur en blanc s'appelle Siegfried Jerusalem. Il a beaucoup chanté Wagner. c'est un bariton qui monte très haut! Parcifal est le dernier, le plus "minimaliste" et pour certains, le plus abouti des opéras de Wagner (beaucoup de choeurs à l'unisson par exemple). Une grande noblesse dans la composition et les airs.
sinedeppilihp 3 years ago
Avec l'Enchantement du Vendredi Saint, on touche l'un des plus hauts sommets de la Musique occidentale. A suivre livret en main, ce passage est d'une poesie vertigineuse... En fait tout Parsifal est mystique, poesie et lumiere.
stefool 3 years ago 2
Et oui Wagner, n'est pas du tout la caricature que la grande majorité des gens s'en font. Il faut écouter avant d'en parler, (sur You Tube par exemple) et une monde sonore merveilleux, dont vous ne pouvez imaginer la beauté, s'ouvrira à vous!
sinedeppilihp 3 years ago
C'est vrai, mais Wagner était un person contradictoire. L'anneau, par instance, dit que la civilisation francaise est un system fait par et pour des hommes inférieurs impropre pour les allemands.
EinFremderAusElea 3 years ago
musique merveilleuse et émouvante
girardje70 3 years ago
Sencillamenmte maravilloso !
quetiomasbueno 3 years ago 2
Kurt Moll's singing in the famous DG Karajan recording is one of the truly great things in music I think. This (slow) extract does not do him justice. I agree about the telly-tubby set. How can such sublime grandeur be betrayed so persistently by producers & directors?
emgsb1 3 years ago
I sgree, this does not do Kurt Moll justice. However, he still has a wonderful voice with beautiful legato.
teachersinger 3 years ago
Well, close your eyes and enjoy the music and the lyrics. Thats nowedays in the theatres the best thing to survive those modern stage-managers!
Hans NL
qklq42 3 years ago
Modern stage-managers????????
This is an Otto Schenk cartoon!!!
callasnuts 3 years ago
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total lächerlich....keinem nimmt man irgendeine tiefere anteilnahme ab....schlechteste statisten-gebärden...
rhizom123 4 years ago
Jüngelsche, hier gehts um die musik!
malwida 3 years ago
mädelsche,
dat is mir neu....isch dachte immer, der wachner wär' auch schauspieler jewesen, datt hat der nietzsche friederich immer behauptet....die musik is klasse, aber dat statuarische jetue...neee, malwida....un ' wie die wies' da aussieht...sin' dat alles schmetterlinge, datt weiße zeuch, oder wat is dat ???
rhizom123 3 years ago
liebes malwidaschen,
jetz fällt mir aber noch der lehrer bömmel in....
wie hat der doch so schön jesacht: wat war der richard waachner ? da stelle mir uns e'mal janz dumm un saren, der waachner, datt war ene musiker....aber eben nit nur...
schön jröß
lehrer bömmel vun de kaijaß' nr. null....
rhizom123 3 years ago
Esta es la mejor version disponible en DVD de Parsifal, respetuosa con la escenografia y lo que Wagner queria para su correcta representacion. Lo edita Deutsche Grammophon. Version del MET dirigida por James Levine.
EnriqueOfterdingen 4 years ago 2
"Parsifal" is as close to heaven as most of us will get!!!
jobe413007 4 years ago
Only can i not understand English but neither too good can I having been understanding the Deutsch, whereas, in the latter years Wagner held me close with these rapturous and nigh on immaculate musics
grailmastah 4 years ago
Diese Stelle soll nicht mitreißend sein, sondern anrührend. Levine dirigiert das völlig richtig.
Es geht um Erlösung, Aufhebung des Willens, Frieden. Werk vollbracht und ab in die Kiste. (In Wagners Fall im doppelten Sinne via Hotelbett in Venedig, naja, egal.)
EinFremderAusElea 4 years ago
Kurt Moll--one of the greatest voices of the last fifty years.
ruggerbruno 4 years ago
this is (or was) the modern-day Trifecta for Parsifal - though I agree that Levine does not help. Not for slowness, in general, but for the inability to speed it up, ever. Only Kna' seems to have been able to sustain even at glacial speeds.
jlaurson 4 years ago
we all love Levine......but so so may times he is slow.slow.slow..
lefemmerachael 4 years ago
For me, the best interpretation of Parsifal comes from Boulez. But unfortunately, no DVD available!
guguss130 4 years ago
I, too, quite love the Boulez recording. I don't think it contradicts Parsifal at all... and one can easily love Boulez and Kna' '56 in the same way.
jlaurson 4 years ago