Wagner, Karl Muck, Bayreuth Festival Orch. with Chorus - Parsifal: Grail Scene, Act 1 album flac

Part of a series of Bayreuth Wagner Festival Recordings - Columbia to 67374-D

Wagner, Karl Muck, Bayreuth Festival Orch. with Flower Maidens and Chorus ‎– Parsifal: Flower Maidens Scene, Act 2. Label: Columbia ‎– 67368-D. Part of a series of Bayreuth Wagner Festival Recordings - Columbia to 67374-D.

Parsifal conductors at the Bayreuth Festival. Franz Fischer (assistant conductor) Hermann Levi Richard Wagner. During the final performance Wagner took the baton out of Hermann Levi's hand and conducted the last act from the transformation scene to the end. Hermann Levi in a letter to his father: "At the end of the work the audience broke into applaus that defies description.

The Bayreuth Festival has started to send the invoices for tickets to the next festival. The Bayreuth Festival. A theatre created for a single composer: the Bayreuth Festival Theatre. With an auditorium in which his music unfolds like in no other theatre in the world. With no grandeur, reduced to the essential: to experience his works as a celebration. Connoisseurs, friends, skeptics – they all come to the green hill every summer to explore his legacy, away from the great centres of culture. Since 1876, when he first performed his Ring. Richard Wagner: visionary, utopian – his heritage remains alive here. At the most exciting musical theatre festival in the world.

Parsifal, WWV 111, is a musical drama in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner between the years 1857 and 1882. Development of the work took 25 years, and it became Wagner's last completed opera. It was premiered at the second Bayreuth Festival, in 1882. The Bayreuth Festival maintained a monopoly on Parsifal productions until 1903, when the opera was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York

Parsifal: tenor Kundry: soprano or mezzo-soprano Gurnemanz, a veteran Knight of the Grail: bass Amfortas, ruler of the Grail kingdom: baritone Klingsor, a magician: bass-baritone Titurel, Amfortas' father: bass Two Grail Knights: tenor, bass Four Esquires: soprano, alto, two tenors Six Flower-maidens: three sopranos, three contraltos or six sopranos. mixed chorus of Knights of the Grail, boys, Flower-maidens. 3 flutes, 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (B♭, A).