Antonio Pappano and Simon O'Neill rehearse Parsifal (The Royal Opera)
Music Director,
Antonio Pappano and tenor
Simon O'Neill rehearse the role of
Parsifal for
The Royal Opera's new production of Parsifal.
Find out more at
http://www.roh.org.uk/parsifal
The creative team behind The Royal Opera's production of
The Minotaur, director
Stephen Langridge and designer
Alison Chitty, bring a new staging of Parsifal to
Covent Garden. Parsifal,
Wagner's final opera, was first given at
Bayreuth in
1882. For many years, at the insistence of
Wagner and then his widow
Cosima, performances outside the
Bayreuth Festival were banned. This embargo was lifted in
January 1914; by August of the same year Parsifal had been performed at more than fifty opera houses throughout
Europe.
Wagner loosely based the opera on scenes from
Wolfram von Eschenbach's medieval romance Parzifa
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