Infos

Places

Mulhouse

La Filature

Strasbourg

Opéra
Dates
Jan 26Feb 23, 2020
Prices
6 - 90 €
Duration
4h45
Informations

Coproduction with the Tokyo Nikikai

Cast

Musical Director Marko Letonja Stage Director Amon Miyamoto Stage set Boris Kudlicka Costumes Kaspar Glarner Lighting Felice Ross Video Bartek Macias

Presentation

Parsifal is a monument, both in Richard Wagner's artistic career as well as in the history of music. The ultimate opera of a composer driven by the desire for a unique union between theater and music, a form of elevation, Parsifal wanders towards redemption on a path between paganism and Christianity. Drawing from medieval legends, Wagner lets Parsifal undergo trials and tribulations as he evolves from innocence to an understanding of the incomprehensible -- among a community of Christian knights or with Klingsor and his flower-maidens, the most beautiful of which is the troubled Kundry, who is both soothing and toxic. This extreme character makes Parsifal conscious of himself and his mission.

Who is Parsifal today? What spiritual journey can the play induce in the mind of a child who hears this story? Japanese director Amon Miyamoto and his team, who produced The Golden Pavilion in the spring of 2018, are seeking to answer these questions. Marko Letonja is conducting this work for the first time with the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg.

In German
Overtitled in French, German