17.09.2023–07.04.2024 / Opera

Parsifal

Richard Wagner

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Fri 29.03.2024

Opernhaus Düsseldorf

17:00 - 22:00

Opera

Content

Spectacularly set to music Grail epic about temptation, compassion and redemption

Bühnenweihfestspiel in three acts
Music and text by Richard Wagner

In German with surtitles

approx. 5 hours, two intervals

For all from 16 upwards

The king dies. Amfortas, leader of the Grail Brotherhood, is tormented by a wound that will not heal - beaten by his arch-enemy Klingsor, to whom he also lost the Holy Spear of Christ guarded by the community. Day after day, the Grail Knights must watch helplessly as Amfortas perishes from his pain and guilt. Only a prophecy gives them hope: a "pure fool" will one day redeem the stricken king through his compassion and win back for them the Holy Spear guarded by the fallen Grail Knight Klingsor in his magic garden. Then Parsifal knocks at the gates of the Grail Castle...

The well-known director Michael Thalheimer ("Othello", "Macbeth") tells Wagner's last, monumental stage work in his usual suspenseful visual language reduced to the essential.

"Parsifal' without overwhelming pathos, without towering symbolism, without political actualisation, without apocalyptic prophecy. [...] It is possible: a miracle of omission." Manuel Brug / Die Welt

Co-production with the Grand Théâtre de Genève

Hans-Peter König (Gurnemanz), dahinter von links: Bogdana Bevziuk (1. Knappe), Johannes Preißinger (4. Knappe), Shengwu Ou (3. Knappe), Verena Kronbichler (2. Knappe).

Žilvinas Miškinis (1. Gralsritter), Bogdana Bevziuk (1. Knappe), Johannes Preißinger (4. Knappe), Michael Nagy (Amfortas), Shengwu Ou (3. Knappe), Verena Kronbichler (2. Knappe), Andrés Sulbarán (2. Gralsritter).

Sarah Ferede (Kundry), dahinter von links: Bogdana Bevziuk (1. Knappe), Johannes Preißinger (4. Knappe), Shengwu Ou (3. Knappe), Verena Kronbichler (2. Knappe).

Hans-Peter König (Gurnemanz).

Hans-Peter König (Gurnemanz), Sarah Ferede (Kundry).

Daniel Frank (Parsifal); im Hintergrund: Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein.

Michael Nagy (Amfortas); im Vordergrund: Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein.

Michael Nagy (Amfortas).

Michael Nagy (Amfortas); davor: Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein. Vorne: Daniel Frank (Parsifal).

Sarah Ferede (Kundry), Joachim Goltz (Klingsor).

Daniel Frank (Parsifal), umgeben von Lavinia Dames, Anke Krabbe, Anna Harvey, Alexandra Yangel, Mara Guseynova und Elena Sancho Pereg (Blumenmädchen). Darüber: Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein.