Richard Wagner - Parsifal 1.Aufzug - Bayreuth 2012

Parsifal 1.Aufzug, Bühnenweihfestspiel von Richard Wagner, Bayreuth, Bayreuther Festspiele 2012

0:00:00 Vorspiel/Prelude
0:12:25 He! Ho! Waldhüter ihr
0:20:35 Recht so! - Habt Dank! - Ein wenig Rast
0:26:24 Nicht Dank! - Haha! Was wird es helfen?
0:33:23 O wunden-wundervoller heiliger Speer!
0:36:59 Titurel, der fromme Held, der kannt' ihn wohl
0:47:03 Weh! Weh! ... Wer ist der Frevler?
0:53:52 Nun sag! Nichts weißt du, was ich dich frage
1:00:44 Vom Bade kehrt der König heim
1:02:49 Verwandlungsmusik
1:06:56 Nun achte wohl und laß mich seh'n
1:13:40 Mein Sohn Amfortas, bist du am Amt?
1:24:13 Enhüllet den Gral!
1:30:40 Wein und Brot des letzten Mahles

Chorleitung: Eberhard Friedrich
Kostüme: Gesine Völlm
Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele
Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Dirigent: Philippe Jordan
Ausstattung: Heike Scheele
Inszenierung: Stefan Herheim

Detlef Roth (Amfortas)
Diógenes Randes (Titurel)
Kwangchul Youn (Gurnemanz)
Burkhard Fritz (Parsifal)
Thomas Jesatko (Klingsor)
Susan Maclean (Kundry)
Arnold Bezuyen (1. Gralsritter)
Christian Tschelebiew (2. Gralsritter)
Julia Borchert (1. Knappe)
Ulrike Helzel (2. Knappe)
Clemens Bieber (3. Knappe)
Willem Van der Heyden (4. Knappe)
Julia Borchert (Klingsors Zaubermädchen)
Martina Rüping (Klingsors Zaubermädchen)
Carola Guber (Klingsors Zaubermädchen)
Christiane Kohl (Klingsors Zaubermädchen)
Jutta Maria Böhnert (Klingsors Zaubermädchen)
Ulrike Helzel (Klingsors Zaubermädchen)
Simone Schröder (Altsolo)

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  Music

[ybravura]

I finally "got" Parsifal while listening to the Saturday Afternoon broadcast from The Met. For years, I had mocked the opera as having two speeds -- slow and stop. But I was listening while working on my electric range which I had neglected to unplug, and so I received a nasty shock.

I made it to an armchair and let the music envelop me, and I somehow lost track of time. It was like meditation. (Wagner was the first New Age composer.) Soon, my wound had healed.

[sopranosd]

It is awesome, is it not? I love the choreography and staging -- the starkness of it all. Rene Pape blew me away, even more than Jonas Kaufmann did (although he was great too). I think it was 5 1/2 hours of awesome, although I did hear some complaints about the tempo in the third Act being way too slow. It certainly was very slow, but I don't know this piece well enough to judge. Orchestra phenomenal, yes?

[Mago Miquel C. Chriest]

Thank you for being there.

[borisgrishenkorublev]

Follow the libretto while watching. Everything will fall into place.

[Aiphos Cuac]

Have you seen Metropolitan Opera version? I really misundertood a lot of things.

[jvdesuit1]

The worst is that now people in Paris and in London, applaud between movements of symphonies or concerti! Can't they just realise that it disturbs the performers? That you need to stay concentrated and focused on what you're playing without any parasite sounds? And as you rightly say when have been under the spell of a stunning performance you just need minutes to recover from the shock. I watched yesterday,Met's Rheingold at home and felt just like that,then forgetting where I was I applauded

[BrainiacFingers]

It's not how it works.When Wagner decided he didn't want to regurgitate what had gone before,he didn't take someone else's work and warp it beyond all recognition through incomprehension;misinterpretat­ion and willful distortion.Instead,he created his own,new type of music drama.What we see happening here is someone superimposing *his* own wretched ideas onto something that is not designed to accommodate them.The analogy of a parasite laying deadly eggs inside its host best describes this process

[BrainiacFingers]

If you think it's 'new age' music then you most certainly haven't 'got' Parsifal.

[BrainiacFingers]

Utter twaddle!!! This production looks like it was 'designed' by pretentious, talentless first year art student with no idea what the libretto is actually about or how the music relates to it. It says absolutely nothing about Wagner's music drama and everything about the directors total lack of talent and comprehension. If anyone out there would like to tell me exactly what any of this has to do with Wagner's Parsifal, I'd be amused to hear it.

[Monika Sigrist]

wowww - thank you so much for posting !!!!

[HRJohn1944]

You are obviously speaking as somebody very well informed (the idea of trawling though Cosima's memoirs - perhaps now that I'm retired, I might be able to do something like that - God almighty, what we opera lovers do for fun!). As for applause generally - I have never understood why people can't wait at least until the music stops before applauding - even then, I often just want silence for a few seconds.

[LordMgls]

A few days ago, I attended a performance of Rigoletto in Lisbon. The brilliant-minded director had the jester dress like Slash in the court, being a part-time mechanic and riding a motorcycle after "pari siamo". I didn't laught out loud, but I did feel compelled to raise my arms like "WTF is this s...". Obviously left before last act's curtain calls.