LoginWagner - Parsifal / Kollo, Frick, Fischer-Dieskau, Ludwig, Kélémen, Hotter, Wiener Phil., Solti
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Wagner coined a blockbuster word to describe Parsifal's genre--Bühnenweihfestspiel, or a "festival play to consecrate the stage." In this, his last work, Wagner returns to the Christian mythology that occupied his imagination earlier in Tannhäuser and Lohengrin. But Parsifal is fundamentally different from the earlier more simplistic, heroic works. Parsifal tries to put the church into the theater, instead of simply giving church themes a theatrical dressing. Parsifal is probably the least accessible Wagnerian opus--the dreamy 19th-century view of Christian mysticism being especially hard for a 20th-century intellect
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Manufacturer: Polygram Records
Release date: 25 October 1990
EAN: 0028941714329 UPC: 028941714329
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Release date: 25 October 1990
EAN: 0028941714329 UPC: 028941714329
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