Wagner Parsifal opera to libretto by the composer. Directed 2015 by Dmitri Tcherniakov at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin. Stars Wolfgang Koch (Amfortas), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Andreas Schager (Parsifal), Tómas Tómasson (Klingsor), Anja Kampe (Kundry), Matthias Hölle (Titurel), Sónia Grané, Annika Schlicht, Stephen Chambers, Jonathan Winell (Squires), Paul O’Neill (First Knight of the Grail), Grigory Shkarupa (Second Knight of the Grail), Julia Novikova, Adriane Queiroz, Sónia, Gráne, Narine Yeghiyan, Annika Schicht, Anja Schlosser (Flowermaidens), and Annika Schlicht (Voice from Above). Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Staatsopernchor (Chorus Master Martin Wright). Set design by Dmitri Tcherniakov; costume design by Elena Zaytseva; lighting design by Gleb Filshtinsky; dramaturgy by Jens Schroth. Directed for TV by Andy Sommer; produced by François Duplat. Sung in German. Released 2016, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA
Hugo Shirley, writing in the July 2022 Gramophone at page 95 says “for profundity as well as provocation one needs to try this Tcherniakov and Barenboim version of Parsifal.”
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