Wagner: Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 2023) BLU-RAY
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 2023) BLU-RAY
Bayreuther Festspiele / Andreas Schager, Elīna Garanča, Georg Zeppenfeld, Derek Welton / Pablo Heras-Casado (cond)
[ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray ]
Release Date: Friday 11 October 2024
The acclaimed new production of Wagner's final opera "Parsifal" is "a musical godsend" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). The successful partnership between Deutsche Grammophon and the Bayreuth Festival continues, and what was started with the 2015 production of Tristan und Isolde now sees its latest installment: 2023's new production of Parsifal.
Stage Director Jay Scheib takes at his word an expression that Wagner used in a letter to King Ludwig II: He stages Parsifal as a "farewell to the world", a work that faces up to the question of how hope can exist when life has long since ceased to be possible…
The Blu-ray Video set provides 3 sound formats, including Dolby Atmos, and a booklet with photos and information about the work and this production.
"Andreas Schager is a magnificent Parsifal, tireless throughout with an almost lyric style that embraces every turn of the text. Elīna Garanča's Kundry is at her most resplendent in Act 2 with a heartfelt 'Ich sah das Kind'...Yet Pablo Heras-Casado's tempos are often unusual." BBC Music
"The most distinctive element…is conductor Pablo Heras-Casado. Though Wagner gave Parsifal the fancy moniker Bühnenweihfestspiel, Heras-Casado treats it like what it is - an opera with sharp dramatic contours and distant echoes of Meyerbeer and Verdi - full of respect but not reverence." Gramophone
