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ID: TPDVD167 (EAN: 604388737802) | 1 DVD Publi: 2010
- LABEL:
- Tony Palmer
- Subcollection:
- Opéra
- Compositeurs:
- WAGNER,(Wilhelm) Richard
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Interprètes:
- MATEI, Alexandro (tenor) | NETREBKO, Anna (soprano) | PUTILIN, Nikolai (baritone) | SALMINEN, Matti (bass) | URMANA, Violeta (soprano)
- Orchestre
- Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg
- Chef d'orchestre:
- GERGIEV, Valery
- Pour plus amples dtails:
Region Code: NTSC. Plays in all territories
Classification: Exempt
Presentation: Wide Screen
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: Dolby Digital Stereo
Language: English
Subtitles: None
Duration: 116 mins
Recorded: Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Ravello, Siena, Bayreuth
Placido Domingo (Parsifal)
Violeta Urmana (Kundry)
Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz)
Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor) & Anna Netrebko
Tony Palmer’s documentary about Richard Wagner’s opera ‘Parsifal’, with extracts from Tony Palmer’s stage production of Parsifal starring Placido Domingo, Violeta Urmana, Matti Salminen and Anna Netrebko.
The Grail - the cup which Jesus Christ is said to have used at The Last Supper - is one of the most powerful symbols in Western culture. Wagner’s three-act opera, Parsifal, is the most famous work which celebrates the search for the Grail. Parsifal is an opera about ideas, about philosophical questions rather than answers, where the questions themselves are what is important, and the power and eloquence with which they are expressed. With the help of a rare interview with Wolfgang Wagner, Richard Wagner’s grandson, who explains what his grandfather intended and why, plus an all-star cast including the first performance on film of Anna Netrebko, this documentary explores the explosive nature of Wagner’s dangerous ideas. Wagner was virulently anti-Semitic - to this day, it is not possible to perform Parsifal in Israel - and thus provided the Nazis with some powerful cultural propaganda, because for Hitler, Parsifal, the hero of the opera, was pure Aryan blood. When the film was originally released on DVD, the Germans censored 30 minutes of the film which they considered ‘political’, ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘irrelevant’. This is the original version, uncensored, as approved by Domingo.
“It succeeds in exploring the legend of Parsifal quite brilliantly, while making it brutally relevant to us today.” John Ardoin, Great Performances (PBS)
Interviews: With Placido Domingo, Wolfgang Wagner, Robery Gutman & Karen Armstrong
| Scene index | | | WAGNER,(Wilhelm) Richard (1813-1883) | | | 1. | Prelude - The Legend of Parsifal & the Search For the Grail the Cup of Christ Wagner, Ravello, Karen Armstrong | 5:56 | | | 2. | King Arthur, Monty Python, Indiana Jones, The Crusades - Ancient & Modern | 7:03 | | | 3. | Adolf Hitler and the Pure Blood of the Aryan Race Bayreuth & Wolfgang Wagner | 6:24 | | | 4. | Where is the Grail? Ravello? Glastonbury? Gurnemanz Explains the Story of Parisfal, The Swan, the Magic Spear & the Shrine | 4:08 | | | 5. | Wagner & Parisifal Richard Burton; The Bells of Zurich; Siena Cathedral Amfortas, the Knights & "The Faith Endures" | 11:49 | | | 6. | To Find the Truth - Klingsor | 5:00 | | | 7. | Kundry, the Flowermaidens & the Kiss | 33:05 | | | 8. | The Slide to Spiritual Vulgarity Karen Armstrong & The Seventh Seal "We Hew an Image Out of Our Fear and Call It God" | 3:49 | | | 9. | The Black Knight, the Black Mass Racial Purity & Wagner's Anti-Semitism Robert Gutman & Wolfgang Wagner | 5:41 | | | 10. | Parsifal & King Ludwig Set Off to Save the World "Germany Must Have Its Place In the Sun" | 5:37 | | | 11. | Destruction of the Innocent "This is the End" | 11:30 | | | 12. | Redeem the Redeemer? The Need to Believe In Something | 10:04 | | | 13. | Coda | 3:55 | | | 14. | End Credits | 2:04 | |
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