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Parsifal, PDF eBook

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These Opera Guides are ideal com panions to the opera.

They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

More than any other work in the operatic repertory, Parsifal demands a personal commitment and response.

As the culmination of half a lifetime's preoccupation with the issues of compassion and redemption, it has profound philosophical implications.

As the ultimate example of Wagner's idiom it is an extraordinary musical structure.

The unique quality of the subject inspired a wholly original musical conception.

Here are four very different essays designed, in their variety, to set you thinking about it what it means to you.

The translation was commissioned for the first production by English National Opera in 1986.Contents: A Very Human Epic Mike Ashman; Recapitulation of a Lifetime Dieter Borchmeyer; Experiencing Music and Imagery in 'Parsifal' Robin Holloway; 'Parsifal': Words and Music Carolyn Abbate; Discussions into the Dramaturgy of 'Parsifal' Gerd Rienaecker; Thematic Guide Lionel Friend; 'Parsifal' poem by Richard Wagner; 'Parsifal' English translation by Andrew Porter; Act One; Act Two; Act Three; Discography Cathy Peterson; Bibliography; Contributors

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