Parsifal News

 
Wagner: Parsifal
Financial Times
By Andrew Clark Given the excellent reviews that greeted previous releases in Janowski's Wagner series with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester and Rundfunkchor Berlin (the city's radio orchestra and chorus), I listened to Parsifal with high expectations ...


 
OregonLive.com
Extra! Extra! Wagner's 'Parsifal' makes front page news -- in 1905
OregonLive.com
"On April 7, 1905, the Metropolitan Opera company brought Parsifal to the Grand Opera House on Mission Street, in San Francisco. The San Francisco Call devoted almost its entire front page to the spectacle." "The provincial imagination refuses the task ...


 
The Arts Desk
Tristan und Isolde, Welsh National Opera
The Arts Desk
Its Meistersinger of two summers ago is already the stuff of legend (and alas not likely to return to reality); farther back one recalls a more than respectable Parsifal, a notable Ring cycle, and an old Tristan under Goodall that's still talked about ...

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RIP Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Herbert Breslin
Washington Post (blog)
(ddp images/AP Photo) Foto: ddp images/AP/AP (ddp images/AP - DDP IMAGES) I didn't get to hear Fischer-Dieskau live very often, but one occasion I remember was a concert performance of Wagner's “Parsifal” in Munich in the late 1980s, when he, ...

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The National
Indian artist Anish Kapoor creates sculpture for London Olympics
The National
His sets for Parsifal, Wagner's solemn opera about the quest for the Holy Grail, will premiere in Amsterdam next month. Most recently he has been in New York, where two of his massive new pieces, one made of thousands of pieces of concrete, ...


 
Master singer brought lieder to life
The Australian
He was highly successful at the Bayreuth Festival, where he made his debut in 1954 and appeared in Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Die Meistersinger (as Kothner), and Parsifal. His long list of roles in standard repertoire included Mozart's Count in The ...

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St George's 'like Monaco' as luxury yachts call in
Royal Gazette
By Marina Mello By , Owain Johnston-Barnes Billionaires' row: The motoryachts Kisses, Soulmate, Parsifal III and Amorazur II all berthed alongside Ordnance Island, St George's yesterday. (Photo by Glenn Tucker) Billionaires' toys: The motoryachts ...