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Parsifal-Bayreuther Festspiele 1955 by Wagner / Modl / Dieskau (CD, 2023)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelProl, Profil-G Haenssler

UPC0881488230024

eBay Product ID (ePID)4060434652

Product Key Features

Release Year2023

FormatCD

GenreClassical Artists

ArtistWagner / Modl / Dieskau

Release TitleParsifal-Bayreuther Festspiele 1955

Dimensions

Item Height0.93 in

Item Weight0.45 lb

Item Length5.66 in

Item Width4.97 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs4

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Notes?Wieland Wagner's production of Parsifal was performed at the Bayreuth Festival every year from 1951 to 1973. This makes it the longest-running production of Parsifal on the Bayreuth programme following the world premiere of 1882, which ran until 1933. Wagner's opera opened the first post-war festival on the 30th of July, 1951, the day after the former Bayreuthian Wilhelm Furtwängler had performed Beethoven's IX Symphony. Hans Knappertsbusch, who at 63 was no longer a young man, was rather perplexed by Wieland's production. During rehearsals, he had assumed that the stage sets were yet to come, and mentioned this to an audience member, probably only half-jokingly, who had similarly criticised precisely the lack of these. Parts of the German press were also irritated. Hans Schnor wrote in the Westfalen Blatt that "what the grandson of the master conjures up for us is... a shapeless play of schemes and shadows", dispensing with individual dramatic references, constantly simply symbolising and therefore becoming tedious over time.