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 for a Blu-ray player for Christmas, the better to scrutinize every detail of this groundbreaking staging.)  

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:

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