Parsifal[a] (WWV 111) is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition.

Parsifal, music drama in three acts by German composer Richard Wagner, with a German libretto by the composer. The work was first performed in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany, in 1882, not …

5 days ago · Richard Wagner’s final opera, Parsifal (1882), breaks in many ways with his earlier works. The musical language is more lyrical and sensuous and points ahead toward the …

Oct 6, 2024 · The very last opera to come from the pen of the game-changing opera composer Richard Wagner, Parsifal is based on the exploits of the Arthurian knight Percival (Parsifal in …

May 27, 2025 · Abstract: This essay provides an in-depth analysis of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal, emphasizing its profound esoteric meanings and connections to his earlier works.

An unknown knight approaches, and Gurnemanz soon recognizes him as Parsifal, bearing the Holy Spear. Parsifal describes his years of wandering, trying to find his way back to Amfortas …

Kundry enters, calling Parsifal by name and speaks of his mother’s love for him and how she died from grief when he left her. Kundry consoles the distressed Parsifal, her embrace intended to …

Dec 21, 2025 · Parsifal was, like Siegfried, brought up in an isolated place in the depths of a forest; in Parsifal's case by his mother, Herzeleide. She kept her son from all knowledge of …

Parsifal is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition.

In "Parsifal" there is a hermit named Gurnemanz who stands on the stage in one spot and practices by the hour, while first one and then another character of the cast endures what he …