Wagner - Parsifal - Elming, Sotin, Watson, Sinopoli Bayreuth 1998 

Arguably the most sublime assembly of notes ever put to staff. Not of this earth. Truly divine inspiration even after 60 years of listening. A great comfort in my old age.

Best production of Parsifal in the recent 40 years. Why won't they produce wagner operas like this production anymore?

Bellissima questa regia davvero originale bellissimi anche i costumi una bella produzione ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Maestro Sinopoli.

Hearing this in Bayreuth in 2018 was a dream come true. I waited 7 years to finally get my 1 ticket. It was worth the wait. You can feel the mystical sense of music pour forth over your body.

Audio-wise, possibly the greatest performance of this Opera I've ever heard. My favourite

🎹 I have heard Parsifal all over the world (including Bayreuth in '98 and '99) and this performance ranks with the best. 🎹

Premiered on this day (26 July) in 1882 at Bayreuth 🌹🌹🌹

The great Maestro Sinopoli. I remember him so well

My dream to see Wagner in the Bayreuth Festspiele came thrue in 1997 after a waiting time of ten yeras with Parsifal and the complete program that year. Unforgetable.

Hans Sotin, one of the best Gurnemanz of the century still sounding great here at age 59. Elming and Watson both sing beautifully.

Desde los tiempos de Knappertsbusch no se presentaba un Parsifal tan intenso en Bayreuth. El final, con el rostro transfigurado de Elming, es de otra dimensión...

Impresionante version. Grande Grundig

Simply sumptuous!! Remarkable recording and soloists. Sinopoli is dearly missed.

Lange verschwunden und schmerzlich vermisst

Absolutely beautiful production of this wonderful opera! Musically, this is one of the very best renditions of it. Thank you so much for posting this!!

Pierre Boulez and Patrice Chéreau opened the door to a more modern approach to Wagner; it was elegant, in good taste and is still a reference production. This magnificent production is in this spirit and respects the ethereal music of the composer. What happened to German production afterwards is unexplaineable. Vulgar, bad german taste has prevailed at Bayreuth and most German opera houses. If the good german singers had any value other than money, they would refuse to participate. But cash prevails.

Falk Struckmann is just wonderful as Amfortas!

1. Aufzug: 1:58 2. Aufzug: 1:53:36 3. Aufzug: 3:03:15

Das Singen und das Orchester sind hervorragend! Bravo!

Magnifica versión.Muchas gracias, mujer ! Usted se merece un premio.

I WASNT ABLE TO BE THER THAT YEAR BUT i' BET THE OVTION WHEN ON FOR AN HOUR!!!

Wow, what clear pictures...thank you!

Love this version, Sinopoli, Emung, et al...

FANTASTIC ! The Flower Maidens scene is a pure wonder ! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Danke vielmals, so kann ich Erinnerungen and der Aufführung die ich vor vielen Jahren in Bayreuth gesehen habe, wiedererleben. Sehr schöne Aufführung. Auch wunderbare Dekore und Inszenierung

Quelle belle interprétation. sublime mise en scene.

Muy bueno.. Muchas gracias

When the bells came in at 4:01:31 , that's when it became really morbid, ominous, and frightening. When the Entrance at the back of the Hall came in to light, in the shape of a Coffin; a symbol of Death, it felt like an unstoppable march towards an unavoidable and inevitable fate, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. I really can't think of anything more terrifying......

Thanks for uploading! - Danke fürs Hochladen. Eine wundervolle Aufführung und eine gute Inszenierung, die ohne den ganzen Firlefanz auskommt, den man heutzutage so manchmal gerade bei diesem Werk antrifft. Hans Sotin als Gurnemanz ist eine Wonne, Rest aber auch sehr gut!

Excellente production pour cette œuvre majeure. Une mise en scène qui respecte l’esprit de l’œuvre ça devient rare. Interprètes excellents et une prise de son très présente et claire. Un grand bonheur pour plusieurs jours. ❤

Il Parsifal compendia tutta la storia della musica quella precedente quella coeva e quella futura.Quindi si può dire che il Parsifal è la storia della musica dell’umanità.

Thank you very much for posting this! A happy and blessed spring to you!

Una de les darreres produccions com Déu mana del festival sagrat a Bayreuth. Cantants de la generació anterior als Zeppenfeld, Schager, Pankratova...

!Mil gracias por subir, Mujerlechuga! Es una maravilla.

Beautiful

Great video! Audio out of this world. Subscribed!!!

Fantástica versión. Muchas gràcias!

Super performance!!!

Millones de gracias mujer lechuga! Me alegro mucho de haber encontrado tu canal 😇🤩

Cette production est devenue ma préférée !..

Impresionante version. Grande Kumdry

The greatest Communion.

Sinopoli is great.

Dreary instantly forgettable set, superb singing and awe inspiring orchestra

Beautiful!

2:19:35 - 2:22:34 🥰👍

Sonnenmenschen Sacred Blood of the GRAIL ❣️🏆

I see not even Wolfgang could resist the urge to raise the curtain earlier than indicated by his Grandfather. What is the point of showing Klingsor during the Prelude of Act II doing actually nothing? It tells no story. If your staging has nothing to add to the music, keep the curtain down, just like the composer wanted.

For once Wolfgang hits it out of the park BRAVO..

A performance comparable to the Knappertsbusch recording, but without all the coughing from the audience.

Esta magnífica gran obra solo falta traducir al español

Wasn't it Rick Volker that was the host for the broadcasts of these live recorded performances over fm radio in the United States? I use to burn so much gas driving on rural highways in upstate NY on Saturday afternoons listening to these. Levine, Barenboim, Sinopoli, and Thielemann back in his pre-demagogue days. Wolfgang Wagner or no, I generally preferred the autumn colors to looking at most opera stage productions.

Ojalá estuviera subtitulada al español...

4' 28"! Approaching Goodall territory here. Lovely but languid.

Very fine in every aspect apart from excessively slow tempi at times especially from the arrival of the knights in Act 1.

This production seems mostly competent. None of that ridiculous Eurotrash I see nowadays

Hans Sotin sounds fantastic here at 60 years old. Also how tall is he he towers over a lot of people he looks like he's 6'4?

Premiered #otd in 1882 🌺🌺🌺

leave it to Wagner to compose one of the most profound Christian operas and yet never once mention the name of Jesus

No subtitles?

Right from the start theres some concern over sexual impurity in Parsifal. The witch is accused of having a sin which has disturbed the whole kingdom, and the king who has been wounded seeks the healing from a sacred bath while he laments the loss of his sacred spear. No wonder the womanizing Nietzsche was so disturbed by the play.

1:53:05

The conclusion is among the most sublime pieces of music ever written. It makes one wonder how so monstrously vile a person as Wagner could have written it.

Would it be possible to add german subtitles?

Somebody, please add English subtitles.

Nur großartig. Das waren Sternstunden in Bayreuth. Wohin sind sie entschwunden?!?

1:45:00

1:35:00 1:41:20 primo finale

4:14:40 Enthüllet den Gral

Me gustaría la tradujeran al español por favor gracias

1:14:11

Why are they in Emerald City?

Insgesamt wìe lang dauert es für die komplette Aufführung?

Kundries dies at the end..why do the change that....the James Levine Met production is still unsurpassed....true to the original, in costuming and set design....

And again, no subtitles? I'm sure the musicianship is great; but this is also a drama with you know, like words? Would it hurt to include at least an English translation? Thank you for this, but I'm sorry my German is just not up to this.

Sinopoli, Sotin, awesome. Struckmann, Elming, Watson, Wlaschiha not my taste.

Merci, c'est l'enregistrement du 2 Aout ?

Eine sehr beeindruckende Aufführung! Da war die Welt noch in Ordnung und keine schizophrene Darstellung einer Wagner- wie heutzutage.

Keine Untertitel. Was soll das?

This Parsifal sounds and looks absolutely gorgeous - but the direction is totally boring! It doesn't tell me anything interesting or spiritually relevant. They could as well have staged this opera as a concert and dispense with acting and costumes altogether. If I had been there, I would have listened to the great music - although this Parsifal is much too slow for my taste - and I would have looked now and then at the beautiful decoration. But most of the time I would have closed my eyes, and I would've left the Festspielhaus vaguely uplifted. However there's nothing challenging in these kinds of productions. I enjoyed Stefan Herheim's Parsifal much more. I certainly didn’t like everything, But Herheim managed to inject many interesting and fresh ideas into a work, whose twisted theology and somewhat outdated morals clash uncomfortably with Wagner's wonderful music. It's difficult these days to present Wagner's operas in interesting and challenging ways without descending into meaningless trash, which happens far too often since Katharina Wagner has taken over the leadership. Her choices haven't been inspired, and we have to put up with disasters like Valentin Schwarz's terribly misguided Ring! Isn't there someone like Patrice Chereau, who gave us a Ring, which is still wonderful after more than 40 years. As to Parsifal, it’s sad that it's impossible to find Christoph Schlingensief's production online. It wasn't very well received at the time - but it was certainly not boring, and Schlingensief's interpretation was far more intelligent than he has been given credit for.

Tolstoy was right, Wagner is not an artist, nor his "music" any better than cheap imitative pantomime.