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Ã2002, 1994., Deutsche Grammophon Call No: DVD Opera Wagner Parsifal (2002) Edition: [Fullscreen presentation] Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An interpretation of Wagner's last opera of German and Christian mythology, set in the Middle Ages, and centering on the brotherhood of Grail knights who guard "the chalice in which the blood of the crucified Saviour had once been caught." [Guide, p.8]
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By AhnsjÃœ, Claes-HÃ¥kan, 1942- Alden, David Anderson, James, 1936- Auer, Gerhard Collins, Pat Kollo, RenÃ, 1937- Large, Brian Mehta, Zubin Meier, Waltraud Newport, Vivian NÃœcker, Hans GÃónter, 1927- Pohl, Johannes Rootering, Jan-Hendrik, 1950- Secunde, Nadine Shiff, Buki Toren, Roni Watzdorf, Dietrich von Weikl, Bernd Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 Bayerisches Sta1995., ArtHaus Musik Call No: DVD Opera Wagner-Tannhauser-1995 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Opera in video.Summary Note: David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Munich, with Bayerische Staatsoper, in September 1994. Shot over three days by leading opera director Brian Large, this recording benefits from the ideal technical conditions made possible by a closed session. Alden, one of the most iconoclastic interpreters of classicalopera, stirs up the visionary, erotic, and archetypal elements in Wagner's work. The cold, forbidding aspect of the stylized and predominantly monochrome sets and costumes by Roni Toren and Buki Shiff manifests the strait-jacket of tradition from which Tannhauser seeks to free himself in this powerful opera.