PARSIFAL Wagner – Hungarian State Opera

This is the post-produced version of Parsifal, which was first streamed live on OperaVision on 15 April 2022. This production is now subtitled in English, German and Hungarian, and will be available until 15 October 2022: https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/parsifal-hungarian-state-opera A young man ignorant of everything, including his own name, arrives at the Kingdom of the Holy Grail. Is he the ‘pure fool, enlightened by compassion’, who, it has been prophesied, will purify the realm? In his final music drama Parsifal, Wagner fashions the fear of the temptations and sinful desires into a tale of redemption. The score contrasts the sacred with the sensual, from the stark magnificence of the music for the procession to the Grail Hall in Act I to the richly orchestrated scene in which Kundry attempts to seduce Parsifal in Act II. There are sections of almost unearthly beauty such as the Act I Prologue and the closing scene of the opera, in which Parsifal reveals the Grail to th