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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Richard Wagner (redirect from Wagnerian opera)
(The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) and Parsifal. To properly present his vision of the works, Wagner had his own opera house built to his specifications:...
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Opera is a form of Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation...
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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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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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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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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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Cosima Wagner (section Parsifal)
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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Lohengrin (pronounced [ˈloːənˌɡʁiːn] in German), WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in...
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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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Parsifal is an 1882 opera by Richard Wagner relating the story of the Arthurian knight Percival. Parsifal may also refer to: Parsifal (1904 film), directed...
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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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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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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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Der fliegende Holländer (redirect from Flying Dutchman (opera))
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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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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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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production of Parsifal. However, his production was oriented towards a simpler line, as in Hänsel und Gretel (1893), his first and most successful opera, based...
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Bayreuth Festival (category Opera festivals in Germany)
works, in particular his monumental cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal. Performances take place in a specially designed theatre, the Bayreuth...
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Tristan und Isolde (category Opera world premieres at the Bavarian State Opera)
as Tristan and Isolde and Parsifal whose libretti are pervaded with Schopenhauer's ideas and whose music dominates the opera. This is in contrast to Wagner’s...
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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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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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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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The Magic Flute (redirect from The three boys (opera))
(German: Die Zauberflöte, pronounced [diː ˈtsaʊbɐˌfløːtə] ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder...
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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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artistic director of the opera company Plamen Kartaloff began a Ring Cycle with entirely Bulgarian casts. Following the entry of Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde...
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Götterdämmerung (redirect from Twilight of the Gods (opera))
2020-10-12 at the Wayback Machine Schott Role Creators in the Operas of Richard Wagner http://opera.stanford.edu Hall, Robert A. Jr. (May 1963). "The Psychological...
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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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Evelyn Herlitzius (category 20th-century German women opera singers)
"Artist of the Week: Evelyn Herlitzius Makes Metropolitan Opera Debut in 'Parsifal'". OperaWire. Literature by and about Evelyn Herlitzius in the German...
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