2022 / AROP evening / Opera

24 May.

Parsifal

Première

Opéra Bastille

18h

Duration

5h10

Dress Cocktail attire

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1st part

18h00

Intermission cocktail

19h40

2nd part

20h25

Intermission cocktail

21h30

3rd part

22h00

End of the performance

23h10

As of the prelude of Parsifal something magical takes place: a musical score with a sacred dimension, infused with esotericism and Buddhist and Christian references to convey a universal message, albeit a cryptic one. How are we to understand a work that we cross like a “forest of symbols”? Drawing on the legend of Percival and the Holy Grail as inspiration for his final opera, Wagner completes his reflexion on the struggle between good and evil and sows the seeds of the virtues of compassion and renunciation. Values which Richard Jones explores by confronting the moral rigour of a dogmatic community with the obscurantism of a deviant scientific ideology. Two worlds opposed to each other in every way other than an irrepressible attraction for illusions.

Parsifal

Production de 2017 - Richard Jones