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    productions until 1903, when the opera was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Wagner described Parsifal not as an opera, but as Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel...
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    Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of...
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  • 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...
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  • Parsifal is a 1904 American silent film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company and directed by Edwin S. Porter. It is based on the 1882 opera Parsifal...
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  • 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...
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    it would need a 'preface'. At this point he conceived that the prefatory opera, Der junge Siegfried, could act as a comic foil to the tragedy of Siegfrieds...
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    Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features. The Ring and Parsifal were premiered here...
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    Wagner objected on the grounds of Levi's Jewish faith; Parsifal, he maintained, was a "Christian" opera. Both he and Cosima were vehement anti-Semites; Hilmes...
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    Percival (redirect from Sir Parsifal)
    Percival (/ˈpɜːrsɪvəl/, also written Perceval, Parzival, Parsifal), alternatively called Peredur (Welsh pronunciation: [pɛˈrɛdɨr]), is a figure in the...
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  • opera today. 1881 Simon Boccanegra (Giuseppe Verdi). Verdi heavily revised this opera over twenty years after it was first performed. 1882 Parsifal (Wagner)...
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  • 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...
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  • Parsifal is an 1882 opera by Richard Wagner. Parsifal may also refer to: Parsifal (1904 film), directed by Edwin S. Porter Parsifal (1909 film) [it],...
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    Jonas Kaufmann (category 20th-century German male opera singers)
    Kaufmann made his first appearance in the title role of Wagner's Parsifal at the Metropolitan Opera. His performance received rave reviews from critics. In July...
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    Walküre 1935: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Rienzi 1936: Parsifal and Rienzi 1937: Parsifal and Lohengrin 1938: Lohengrin and Der Ring des Nibelungen...
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    Metropolitan Opera House, Rebuilt for the Production of Parsifal" Scientific American (1904). Portal: Opera 40°46′22″N 73°59′3″W / 40.77278°N 73.98417°W /...
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    p. 12. Parsifal: Piano and vocal score arr. Karl Klindworth, G. Schirmer, New York 1904. Retrieved on 6 April 2009 Osborne, p. 263–65 Parsifal was not...
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    Wagner's Parsifal. Boulez returned to conduct Pelléas in an acclaimed production by the German director Peter Stein for the Welsh National Opera in 1992...
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    Die Sieger (category Parsifal)
    story persist in his opera Parsifal. Elements of Die Sieger were used by the British composer Jonathan Harvey in his own opera, Wagner Dream (2007)....
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    Controversies surrounding Richard Wagner (category Race-related controversies in opera)
    of Parsifal, Wagner's last opera. Wagner initially objected to this and was quoted as saying that Levi should be baptized before conducting Parsifal. Levi...
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  • over the next decade, performing roles like Lohengrin, Parsifal, Siegmund and Tristan at major opera houses and festivals internationally. Hofmann's busy...
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  • Tristan chord (category Opera terminology)
    original Tristan chord is heard in the opening phrase of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde as part of the leitmotif relating to Tristan. It is made...
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    Bayreuth premiere cast of Parsifal lists the contributors to the new productions of Richard Wagner's inaugural stage play Parsifal, including the premiere...
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    fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The central theme is redemption...
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    Die Walküre (category Operas)
    Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first...
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    Der Ring des Nibelungen (category 1876 operas)
    often performed separately, and indeed the operas contain dialogues that mention events in the previous operas, so that a viewer could watch any of them...
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    This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first commonly...
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    Wartburg, "Tannhäuser and the Minnesängers' Contest at Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts, with music and text by Richard Wagner (WWV 70 in the catalogue...
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  • list provides a guide to opera composers, as determined by their presence on a majority of compiled lists of significant opera composers. (See the "Lists...
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    Ride of the Valkyries (category Opera excerpts)
    of the composition of the entire opera, which was fully orchestrated by the end of March 1856. In the Walküre opera, the "Ride", which takes around eight...
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    Simon O'Neill (category Winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions)
    roles of Parsifal, Lohengrin at the Royal Opera House with Sir Antonio Pappano, Otello, Fidelio, Götterdämmerung and Lohengrin at Houston Grand Opera, the...
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