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Wagner: Parsifal/La Monnaie
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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A mythical performance from la Monnaie - BruxeIles Parsifal is a strange and enigmatic work. At the end of his life, did Wagner wish to celebrate asceticism, which he himself had never practised? Did he faII upon his knees before the Cross, as claimed by Nietzsche? And what does the secret society of knights based on pure blood signify, desperateIy waiting for the saviour to regenerate it? What is the true nature of the opposition between the worIds of Klingsor and the Grail? What can Parsifal tell us today? In his artistic wiIl and testament, Wagner condenses his moral idea of the world and returns to the roots of Iove and reIigion - to the very heart of art according to him. With the participation of conductor Hartmut Haenchen who is passionated by the score, Italian stage director Romeo CasteIlucci proposes an originaI reading of this briIIiant work and explores the essence of Wagnerian KunstreIigion in a different Iight. |
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