Organization

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Conductor

Axel Kober

Stage director

Michael Thalheimer

Set designer

Henrik Ahr

Costume designer

Michaela Barth

Lighting designer

Stefan Bolliger

Dramaturge

Bettina Auer

Anna Melcher

Chorus master

Gerhard Michalski

Singer

Baritone

Bogdan Baciu

Amfortas

Bass

Luke Stoker

Titurel

Hans-Peter König

Gurnemanz

Tenor

Daniel Frank

Parsifal

Bass-baritone

Joachim Goltz

Klingsor

Soprano

Sarah Ferede

Kundry

Andrés Sulbarán

First Grail knight

Zilvinas Miskinis

Second Grail knight

Bogdana Bevziuk

First squire

Contralto

Verena Kronbichler

Second squire

Shengwu Ou

Third squire

Johannes Preissinger

Fourth squire

Elena Sancho-Péreg

First flower maiden

Mara Guseynova

Second flower maiden

Alexandra Yangel

Third flower maiden

Michael Nagy

Grand Théâtre de Genève

Orchestra

Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra

Nikolai Schukoff

Jakob Kleinschrot

Others

Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein

Nils Sandberg

Katarzyna Włodarczyk

Voice from above

Lavinia Dames

Fourth flower maiden

Anke Krabbe

Fifth flower maiden

Anna Harvey

Sixth flower maiden

German

Dusseldorf

Germany

Opernhaus Düsseldorf

Parsifal Wagner, Richard

Public

Private

Approved

PARSIFALRichard WagnerPremiere am 17. September 2023 – Opernhaus DüsseldorfMusikalische Leitung: Axel KoberInszenierung: Michael ThalheimerBühne: Henrik AhrK...

Amfortas, leader of the Grail Brotherhood, is tormented by a wound that cannot heal - struck by his archenemy Klingsor, to whom he also lost the Holy Spear of Christ, which was guarded by the community. Day after day, the Knights of the Grail have to watch helplessly as Amfortas dies away from his pain and feelings of guilt. Only one prophecy gives them hope: a "pure fool" will one day redeem the ailing king through his compassion and win back the Holy Spear for them, which the fallen Knight of the Grail, Klingsor, is guarding in his magic garden. Then Parsifal knocks on the gates of the Castle of the Grail...

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

English

Amfortas, Anführer der Gralsbruderschaft, quält eine Wunde, die nicht zu heilen vermag – geschlagen von seinem Erzfeind Klingsor, an den er zudem den von der Gemeinschaft bewachten Heiligen Speer Christi verlor. Tag für Tag müssen die Gralsritter hilflos mitansehen, wie Amfortas an seinen Schmerzen und seinen Schuldgefühlen vergeht. Nur eine Prophezeiung spendet ihnen Hoffnung: Ein „reiner Tor“ werde einst durch sein Mitleid den siechenden König erlösen und ihnen den Heiligen Speer zurückgewinnen, den der gefallene Gralsritter Klingsor in seinem Zaubergarten bewacht. Dann klopft Parsifal an die Pforten der Gralsburg…

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