Parsifal Puns

I’m going to Vienna the week before Christmas, and I want to catch a performance at the Staatsoper. These are my choices. Not super excited by any of them to be honest-when I saw the offerings, I immediately thought (long and boring), but maybe I’m wrong. Tempted to see Onegin (ballet) instead.

Which would you choose and why?

Don Giovanni: Musical Direction Philippe Jordan Production Barrie Kosky With Kyle Ketelsen, Ain Anger, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Kate Lindsey, Philippe Sly, Patricia Nolz, Peter Kellner

Parsifal: Musical Direction Philippe Jordan Inszenierung, Bühne & Kostüme Kirill Serebrennikov With Wolfgang Koch, René Pape, Brandon Jovanovich, Anja Kampe, Nikolay Sidorenko

Don Carlo: Conductor Franz Welser-Möst Director Daniele Abbado With Ain Anger, Fabio Sartori, Boris Pinkhasovich, Dmitry Ulyanov, Asmik Grigorian, Ekaterina Gubanova

>!A charter group of super-yachties arrives, and the Parsifal crew is anxious about being judged by their peers. But as the guests get boozed up, the Parsifal crew contemplates getting down, and Captain Glenn keeps a worried eye on his party-hardy team. After the charter, the final night out takes place at a picturesque castle, where Daisy reveals a secret that sets fireworks off in all directions. Back on the boat, the crew forgoes fighting for festivities, as Gary turns the hot tub into a wet and wild bubble bash. Most of the crew says their good-byes, but Natasha, Gary, Alli, and Sydney stay aboard to help Glenn with an ocean crossing. The drama doesn’t stop even though the season is over.!<

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This 1981 Bayreuth production stars Siegfried Jerusalem as Parsifal, with Bernd Weikl as Amfortas and Eva Randova as Kundry. Hans Sotin and Matti Salminen sing Gurnemanz and Titurel, respectively.

Does anyone have a high quality digital version of Muck's version of Parsifal? Only part of it is available on streaming

https://www.bvibeacon.com/parsifal-pays-part-of-reef-cleanup/

The captain didn't report it to VI authorities until nearly 2 months later.

https://youtu.be/ijuZvLlcMXk

I have liked Wagner’s music for many years now but I have always struggled with Parsifal. I found the music attractive, but the slow pace and libretto stultifying. Beautiful but dull, it would always send me to sleep.

Since Christa Ludwig passed away I have been listening to lots of her old recordings and after discovering the fantastic Solti recording of Tannhäuser, I thought I’d check out his Parsifal with Ludwig singing the role of Kundry. This time the opera has just clicked with me. It puts me into that rhapsodic trance that only Wagner’s music can do. I hope I get to see it on stage some day.

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Are there any operatic tellings of the life of Jesus?

Any recommendations?

Don't get me wrong: I love Parsifal. But I was watching the current Met production (the one where Act II takes place in a wading pool of blood) and it got me thinking:

Does even a good staging of Parsifal add much to the experience, compared to a concert production?

This isn't a show with gags like Meistersinger, or big visual effects like Siegfried, or, really, emotional scenes between the characters like Dutchman. It's a mix of short formal dialogues and monologues, with long orchestral interludes sprinkled in between. Most productions stage it as a series of fairly static tableaux--much like what you get when someone tries to stage a Handel oratorio as if it was an opera.

Which made me think I might actually prefer to hear Parsifal as an oratorio. Set up five chairs in front of a good orchestra for Parsifal, Kundry, Guernemanz, Amfortas, and Klingsor (doubling Titurel). Let chorus soloists handle the rest or double it for those singers. Set up the screen you use for the live movie soundtrack shows, and use it for a combination of supertitles and projected images of the action. And let us see the orchestra, which is what we're listening to for most of the night anyway. (And give the overstuffed orchestra a little more room on stage than they'd have in the pit!)

If you saw that your local symphony was doing a stand-and-sing Parsifal, would you be much less likely to go hear it over a staged production with equivalent singers?

A charter group of super-yachties arrives, and the Parsifal crew is anxious about being judged by their peers. But as the guests get boozed up, the Parsifal crew contemplates getting down, and Captain Glenn keeps a worried eye on his party-hardy team. After the charter, the final night out takes place at a picturesque castle, where Daisy reveals a secret that sets fireworks off in all directions.

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A charter group of super-yachties arrives, and the Parsifal crew is anxious about being judged by their peers. But as the guests get boozed up, the Parsifal crew contemplates getting down, and Captain Glenn keeps a worried eye on his party-hardy team. After the charter, the final night out takes place at a picturesque castle, where Daisy reveals a secret that sets fireworks off in all directions.

A charter group of super-yachties arrives, and the Parsifal crew is anxious about being judged by their peers. But as the guests get boozed up, the Parsifal crew contemplates getting down, and Captain Glenn keeps a worried eye on his party-hardy team. After the charter, the final night out takes place at a picturesque castle, where Daisy reveals a secret that sets fireworks off in all directions.

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