Hi, on Saturday, March 2 at noon (note the earlier
starting time) we will be seeing Wagner's final opera "Parsifal" live
from the Met at Celebration Cinema. Many
opera aficionados consider it his greatest masterpiece, but it is so multilayered
that the Canadian director, Francois Girard, whose production we will see, said
it "was an impossible piece and undirectable". It is the story of a young man who reared
away from society embarks on a quest to gain wisdom, reconciliation and
compassion. Girard sets his production
in a postapocalyptic world "made barren by global warming" (NYT
review, Feb. 10). Be prepared: there will be lots of (fake) blood
symbolizing Amfortas' wound that can't be healed until someone arrives who has
learned compassion.
Parsifal is sung by Jonas Kaufmann (we saw him most
recently in "Faust"), Kundry is Katarina Dalayman, Amfortas is Peter
Mattei, Klingsor (the baddie) is sung by Evgeny Nikitin and Rene Pape is
Gurnemanz.
The opera is 340 minutes long, but ... there are two
intermissions! Looking forward to
seeing you soon. Gisela
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