Research Catalog

Title

Parsifal : opera in three acts / Richard Wagner ; directed by Hans Huscher ; staging by Harry Kupfer ; [conductor], Daniel Barenboim ; a production of Metropolitan Munich.

Author

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

Publication

[Berlin] : EuroArts Music International, [2012], ©2012.

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Additional Authors

• Barenboim, Daniel, 1942-
• Elming, Poul
• Hulscher, Hans.
• Hübner, Fritz
• Kannen, Günter von, 1940-
• Kupfer, Harry.
• Meier, Waltraud
• Struckmann, Falk
• Tomlinson, John, 1946 September 22-
• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. Chor, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
• Staatskapelle Berlin, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
• EuroArts Music International GmbH.

Description

3 videodiscs (245 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Parsifal represents the culmination of Wagner's work as a revolutionary composer of opera. In it he created a powerful allegory on the conflict between Christianity and paganism, good and evil, light and dark, physical passion and spiritual abstinence.

Subjects

• Opera films
• Operas

Genre/Form

Opera films.

Note

• Program notes in English, German, and French in container.

Credits (note)

• Stage design, Hans Schavernoch ; costumes, Christine Stromberg ; sound, Helmut Mühle, Christian Feldgen.

Performer (note)

• Poul Elming (Parsifal), Falk Struckmann (Amfortas), John Tomlinson (Gurnemanz), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Günter von Kannen (Klingsor), Fritz Hübner (Titurel).

Event (note)

• Recorded at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, 1992.

System Details (note)

• DVD; NTSC; 4:3 aspect ratio; PCM stereo.; Region Code 0 (worldwide).

Language (note)

• Sung in German with subtitles in English, German, French, and Japanese.

LCCN

880242667380

OCLC

• ocn808598460
• 808598460
• SCSB-9443758

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries