Parsifal - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Parsifal
Stage consecration festival play in three acts
Poetry by Richard Wagner
First performance on July 26, 1882 in Bayreuth
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on October 21, 2012
recommended from 16 years
5 hours 30 minutes / Two breaks
In German with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
Ever since it was founded in November 1912, the Deutsche Oper Berlin has been one of the most important international venues for Richard Wagner's music theatre. As early as 1914, after the Bayreuth protection period for Wagner's PARSIFAL had expired, the house on Bismarckstraße was one of the first German theaters to put this work on the repertoire. For the 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Oper in October 2012, the celebrations were crowned with a new PARSIFAL production. General Music Director Donald Runnicles worked for the first time with director Philipp Stölzl.
Richard Wagner created his own new myth with his PARSIFAL in his free poetic handling of motifs from the most diverse sagas, the Christian and Buddhist religions and Schopenhauer's world of ideas. The desire for salvation accompanied Wagner himself for decades, in PARSIFAL he faced the question of private and social salvation on an artistic level with particular intensity. A strong leader is desired, society is to be renewed. But the installation of the new ruler Parsifal is just another stage in the repeated, rigid ritual of power. Philipp Stölzl focuses on questions about the aggression potential and fanaticism of hermetic religious communities in his examination of Wagner's stage consecration festival play. Anti-enlightenment world view, belief in miracles and a violent demarcation from outsider figures like Kundry are themes that are reflected in opulent tableaus on a journey through time through thousands of years.
Philipp Stölzl began his career in 1988 at the Munich Kammerspiele as a stage and costume assistant, e.g. by Juergen Rose and Ezio Toffolutti. As a freelance stage and costume designer, he worked with directors such as Armin Petras and Thomas Langhoff. From 1997 he shot music videos for the Austrian production company doro, where he made his breakthrough with Rammstein's "Du RIECHST SO GOOD". Videos for Westernhagen, Die Ärzte, Die Toten Hosen, Madonna, Mick Jagger, Luciano Pavarotti followed. At the same time he made commercials for Sony, BMW, Nokia and Rolex. In 2001 Stölzl directed his first feature film "Baby, Eine Tragekomödie". In autumn 2008 his film "Nordwand" was released in cinemas. Philipp Stölzl made his debut in Meiningen in 2005 with the production of Weber's FREISCHÜTZ and caused a stir as an opera director in the following years at the Ruhrtriennale and the Salzburg Festival, at the Theater Basel, at the Stuttgart State Opera and at the Berlin State Opera. After THE FLYING DUTCHMAN at the Basel Theater and RIENZI at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stölzl continued his exploration of Richard Wagner's music theater with PARSIFAL.
Subject to change.
Poetry by Richard Wagner
First performance on July 26, 1882 in Bayreuth
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on October 21, 2012
recommended from 16 years
5 hours 30 minutes / Two breaks
In German with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
Ever since it was founded in November 1912, the Deutsche Oper Berlin has been one of the most important international venues for Richard Wagner's music theatre. As early as 1914, after the Bayreuth protection period for Wagner's PARSIFAL had expired, the house on Bismarckstraße was one of the first German theaters to put this work on the repertoire. For the 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Oper in October 2012, the celebrations were crowned with a new PARSIFAL production. General Music Director Donald Runnicles worked for the first time with director Philipp Stölzl.
Richard Wagner created his own new myth with his PARSIFAL in his free poetic handling of motifs from the most diverse sagas, the Christian and Buddhist religions and Schopenhauer's world of ideas. The desire for salvation accompanied Wagner himself for decades, in PARSIFAL he faced the question of private and social salvation on an artistic level with particular intensity. A strong leader is desired, society is to be renewed. But the installation of the new ruler Parsifal is just another stage in the repeated, rigid ritual of power. Philipp Stölzl focuses on questions about the aggression potential and fanaticism of hermetic religious communities in his examination of Wagner's stage consecration festival play. Anti-enlightenment world view, belief in miracles and a violent demarcation from outsider figures like Kundry are themes that are reflected in opulent tableaus on a journey through time through thousands of years.
Philipp Stölzl began his career in 1988 at the Munich Kammerspiele as a stage and costume assistant, e.g. by Juergen Rose and Ezio Toffolutti. As a freelance stage and costume designer, he worked with directors such as Armin Petras and Thomas Langhoff. From 1997 he shot music videos for the Austrian production company doro, where he made his breakthrough with Rammstein's "Du RIECHST SO GOOD". Videos for Westernhagen, Die Ärzte, Die Toten Hosen, Madonna, Mick Jagger, Luciano Pavarotti followed. At the same time he made commercials for Sony, BMW, Nokia and Rolex. In 2001 Stölzl directed his first feature film "Baby, Eine Tragekomödie". In autumn 2008 his film "Nordwand" was released in cinemas. Philipp Stölzl made his debut in Meiningen in 2005 with the production of Weber's FREISCHÜTZ and caused a stir as an opera director in the following years at the Ruhrtriennale and the Salzburg Festival, at the Theater Basel, at the Stuttgart State Opera and at the Berlin State Opera. After THE FLYING DUTCHMAN at the Basel Theater and RIENZI at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stölzl continued his exploration of Richard Wagner's music theater with PARSIFAL.
Subject to change.
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