Parsifal (Transformation Music)

Parsifal ACT I (Transformation music). Conducting Giuseppe Sinopoli. Poul Elming and Hans Sotin. English, Spanish and French subtiltes

[@Jean-LouisDumas-nd1io]

Ce changement de décors est particulièrement réussi. Quant à la musique, 60 ans après l'avoir découverte , elle me donne toujours la chair de poule et me rappelle l'époque où pendant des années je n'ai pu écouter que la musique de Wagner !

[@omairagamboa7821]

I am in tears! ... unbelievable magnificent music, it is another dimension. ..it transcends all that I have ever heard

[@christianwouters6764]

Indeed. This music has never been surpassed. The representation on stage is a problem. These 2 elderly dudes with funny haircuts are so ridiculous...it's a playground for arty farty directors.

[@BenEmberley]

that chord at 3:18 nearly killed me the first time I heard it. I was just a complete wreck at that time.......

[@stevelemoine2388]

WOW!!! The music is like a universe within a universe!!!! Beyond the words of sublime magnificence!!! Wagner was a genius in his art and music yesterday,today and tomorrow!!! This is the beginning of the future of all music!!!! Remarkable!!!!

[@BenEmberley]

10/10 for the Orchestra. 9.5/10 for the singing. Interesting and intriguing staging. One of my all-time favourite productions and interpretations of this Opera

[@tjhooker824]

DAAAAAMN. I remember when i first discovered this music it was al i could listen too

[@rmm2370]

I went to see my first Parsifal in 2016; I wasn't a huge Wagner fan, but I knew the Prelude was amazing. Nothing prepared me for this. I remember sitting in the theatre encountering the Transformation scene and weeping like an awestruck baby, it was so profound. I couldn't believe I went through so much of my life without it. (I just saw my 6th performance and I've been mainlining this piece all day, lol)

[@tjhooker824]

@@rmm2370 “see my first Parsifal” you got to see it more than once? NICE

[@Jean-LouisDumas-nd1io]

@@rmm2370 C'est une vrai drogue, autre chose que l'on ne peut atteindre !

[@NewFutureFantasy]

Incredibly profound art, as good as it gets, the perfection of our culture.

[@markmaclay3460]

Omar - great work spreading the magic which is Parsifal

[@owenrichardson8476]

"Here time becomes space ...."

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Extraordinaria escena de gran belleza.

[@marco-marchi]

Grande musica e bellissima esecuzione. Bella anche la regia.

[@telephilia]

Magnificent

[@didzouille]

Absolutely stunning performance. THIS is Wagner's opera in its best shape. This production is the best for long time 😍 and will remain the best for long according to the today's stageing. 😭

[@christianwouters6764]

Wagner put very precise stage directions in his score. First thing directors do is to ignore these entirely. Why? Imagine the conductor changes the music itself because he thinks he can do better.

[@gregoriodoria]

performance stratosferica!!!

[@bobparsons77]

:Poul a fantastic Parsifal.

[@Medietos]

Seems to be a real, authentic, natural, believable version, as compared to the 2024 one in Sweden, Stockholm.Thank you very much.

[@stenjerdenius1683]

I saw this production in Bayreuth although with James Levine who conducted very slow. And Wolfgang´s direction was also very slow indeed as you can see. But the music and singing were wonderful.

[@sverige11074]

Magnifique

[@stillstanding6031]

Great production. I wish more Wagner looked like this.

[@illyaismaili6413]

Sadly this was the last true Wagner production at Bayreuth. This was done by Wolfgang Wagner himself.

[@nickwright6034]

Excellent.

[@thorsten1955]

Obviously the 1998 Bayreuth production. Would have been nice to mention that.

[@yaelpalombo4093]

❤️😍😍

[@paulybarr]

Wow- this extraordinary music. The only problem is for the directors/ performers. It seems to require two things above all else: the ability to look nobly off into an imagined future, plus the capacity to walk very very VERY slowly. I think I'll just keep listening to the music without watching any staging. Staging always seems to diminish great music like this. In the same way The Rite of Spring is much more powerful in the concert hall than on stage, which, again, can never match the power of the music.

[@rcrinsea]

Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if the staging these days weren't so bad. I don't know why they try to depart from the traditional staging so much. It really makes no sense and doesn't do the music any justice. I guess artists always try to do something new, lest they be accused of having no imagination or creativity. What a shame.

[@rcrinsea]

Wagner's music casts a dark spell on me the more I listen, and seems to foreshadow the tragedy to befall Germany in WWII. Is it just me? Also the music is timeless, and doesn't evoke images of the 19th Century to me. It's kind of spooky.

[@wehaveasituation]

Wagner casts a spell, and always has

[@clairefede8435]

molto bello complienti

[@chesslovechild]

Once I copied out the transformation scene in Parsifal onto four-foot butcher paper that stretched all around three walls of a room so I could figure out what the f*ck he was doing. Just one organic segue after another. Quite stunning. I invited Australian composer Julian Yu over for tea, took him in the room and turned the music up to 10 in the middle of the three walls of scoring and asked him to follow it. He put his fingers in his ears! That was the last time I spoke to him. Haha. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6TQZWeops1_qdU)

[@cmauer1658]

Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit. Indeed, Wagners music touches an other sphere.

[@Skidoo22]

Sinopoli just had the grasp of this

[@siegfriedenea]

Totally ! 😍

[@perhapsmaybe9]

Sounds like Von Karajan to me.

[@cinziavidali411]

Musica di infinita nobiltà

[@LloydMe]

This clip should go to the end of the first act to be more complete

[@elsalohengrin7777]

Wagner 🙏🙏🙏 bei 0:37 ganz typische Bach Violinen "movement" reinkomponiert..

[@jaykauffman4775]

Wolfgangs second Parsifal production at Bayreuth

[@lilalola33]

Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms........bitte sehr !!!!!

[@elpisvova]

i wanna see more from this performance

[@BenEmberley]

The full thing is on KZbin -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHvOnIuumdesepo

[@TomsDone]

@@BenEmberley Thanks, but the clip above has subtitles and the copy you linked to doesn't, which is a shame for those of us who don't know it well. Also, it is lower resolution (but maybe they are actually the same video quality and just nominally different - not sure).

[@pepgomis2407]

molt bonic

[@siegfriedenea]

Sinopoli … what else?

[@perhapsmaybe9]

Von Karajan.

[@jsc5492]

Wagner or Humperdinck?

[@voodooprince5561]

Fortunately Wagner found God near the end of his life and gifted us this masterpiece

[@nelliethursday1812]

Wagner never lost God in the first place hence his music. God is in every piece ever written by Wagner

[@arambarsamian6312]

I think this misses the point. “Parsifal” isn’t about finding God; rather, it is about finding enlightenment/knowledge/gnosis/understanding through compassion - durch Mitleid wissend. He did not eat meat for the last 25 or so years of his life because he was horrified by the way animals were treated (as all of us ought to be). This is the culmination of his life philosophy.

[@alexandresobreiramartins9461]

Why is contemporary staging always so ugly?!?

[@benschroth7717]

Too slow.