Somewhere there’s a blu-ray of happiness
According to the generally reliable Wagneropera.net, the 2012 Bayreuth production of Parsifal directed by Stefan Herheim will be released on Blu-ray and DVD by Opus Arte in April 2013. (This is as good a reason as La Cieca can think of to ask
Since the Herheim has not yet been released, La Cieca will ask the cher public to content themselves for the time being with an older video of the Meister’s Bühnenweihfestspiel, the classic Met staging by Otto Schenk:
The production might have not been released yet but a search for it shows we can already watch it online, you know, somewhere
I am not posting it here because I do not want a repeat of the Turandot.
Dearest Lindoro,
Herheim’s production has been available for *sometime.*
had no idea. Thanks
More from the land of the unborn (any excuse):
But wouldn’t this be fabulous on the Met stage!
I wish they would release the earlier incarnation with Ventris (I think) as Parsifal -- so much easier on the eyes than the guy who saved the day for the revival.
Just listened to Jon Vickers singing Parsifal on Sirius last night from 1979. Love him, but found the music lugubrious, lacking charm. It picked up a little as the evening wore on, but basically, meh.
A sailor suit? Must still speak to people in Europe. Suits are still available for the preschool set (a grandma buy), but that’s it.
Of course Maeterlinck did not confine himself to fey young women with long hair (q.v. elsewhere on this blog) as he is also responsible for L’Oiseau Bleu above.
Happy this comes out. Followed soon by the Christoph Schlingensief Parsifal, I hope, preferably with Evelyn Herliztius.