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"A ray of light: the Grail is fully radiant. A dove floats down from the dome above." These are Richard Wagner's stage directions for the maximally transcendent final moments of "Parsifal," his last opera. Christoph Schlingensief's production at the Bayreuth Festival last week gave us instead two dead rabbits, their rotting bodies intertwined, their images projected on a screen above the stage. We then saw a sped-up film of one rabbit decomposing, its body frothing as the maggots did their work. I've seen a lot of stupid, repulsive, irritating, befuddling, and boring things on opera stages over the years, but Schlingensief's dead-rabbit climax was something new: for the ...
- Christoph Schlingensief: Burgtheater Wien.(movie exhibitions)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Vogel, Sabine B. May 1, 2006 700+ words
...production of Parsifal at Bayreuth...Christoph Schlingensief has become...than in his Parsifal. Based on...Passion, Schlingensief's production...effect in Parsifal. This is...according to Schlingensief. On the...
- Christoph Schlingensief: Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst.
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Knoll, Valerie February 1, 2008 700+ words
...and political agitator Christoph Schlingensief has a reputation for pointing out society...solo show in Zurich, brings together Schlingensief's central projects of the last two...as black-and-white films made by Schlingensief. Allan Kaprow, one of Schlingensief...
- Search for 'Parsifal' is worth the effort.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Medrek, T.J. July 2, 1999 700+ words
...reminder of how good PBS can be is "Parsifal: The Search for the Holy Grail." This...With Richard Wagner's 1882 opera "Parsifal" as a central but not exclusive focus...Holy Grail, central to the plot of "Parsifal" - has captivated human imagination...
- Parsifal.(Opera review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Lash, Larry L. August 14, 2008 700+ words
...Detlef Roth Gurnemanz Kwangchul Youn Parsifal Christopher Ventris Klingsor Thomas Jesatko Kundry Mihoko Fujimura Parsifal as a Child Marius Adler With: Diogenes...Richard Wagner's final work, "Parsifal," is so utterly unlike anything...
- Economists, Parsifal, and the search for the Holy Grail.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues Morong, Cyril December 1, 1996 700+ words
Like Parsifal, the modern economist naively blunders...the discipline. The many versions of Parsifal share a few basic themes that are, at...rational and quantifiable. The myth of Parsifal provides a psychological explanation...
- Parsifal
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
Parsifal. Opera in 3 acts by Wagner; text by...can recover the Spear. A young man (Parsifal, ten) is dragged in, having killed...witness the ceremony of the Holy Grail. Parsifal understands nothing of the ritual and...
- `PARSIFAL' AT MCCAW HALL IS EXTRAORDINARY.(Life and Arts)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. August 4, 2003 700+ words
...CAMPBELL P-I music critic Wagner's "Parsifal" has never been an easy assignment...banished. More could not be asked of any "Parsifal." Extraordinary praise to Seattle Opera...been given a more rigorous test than "Parsifal": the high-tech "coups de theatre...
- LOVE IT OR LOATHE IT, `PARSIFAL' OPENS MCCAW.(What's Happening)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. August 1, 2003 700+ words
...R.M. CAMPBELL P-I music critic "Parsifal" elicits strong reactions among operagoers...home, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, with "Parsifal." Since its first production of the...opera in the Wagner canon - except "Parsifal." Audiences have followed as well...