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Director Uwe Eric Laufenberg presents the “Parsifal” as a message of peace at the Bayreuth Festival: forget the religions, to humans it comes to
<- Magnific popup core JS file -> <. p> Whether the Dalai Lama likes to listen to the music of Richard Wagner? One does not know. And how much Buddhism lies actually in the matter, the Tibetan world star has in Bayreuth is currently the first word, in the program book “Parsifal”: “I think on some days that it would be better if we had no more religions.” Well said. Terror and war in the name of some god, that’s the reality. In Bayreuth, the police presence was out of fear of attacks now greater than ever. And inside dazzled the festival on stage first a solidarity address, they dedicated the performance “all the victims of violence in recent days and their relatives”
Uwe Eric Laufenberg but actually staged “Parsifal” of the hour.: precisely as a message of peace. That was a bit more flat, some major critics scoffed whether the lack of imagination of the director of Wiesbaden. Much will also mentally undercooked, and two acts long do not know the audience where it will lead. But the end is yet very touching. Much of the night audience cheered and was just happy after six sweltering hours. And redeemed.
Almost forgot so were the quarrels about the sudden departure of the conductor Andris Nelsons. For Hartmut Haenchen sat in just a few sample its highlights: It was a relatively rapid, pulsating “Parsifal”, often intimate play like the middle voices auffächernd. It was make music, theatrical, unceremonious: no incense, but still soulful late romantic. At times it could have been a more grippy, hands-. Haenchen but had a good ear for the strong ensemble. And so plastic sound at the Festspielhaus. Always an event
But now in the Orient. The scene in the stage of Gisbert Jäkel: perhaps Mar Musa in Syrian desert mountains where the nuns and monks built up in a stone monastery dating from the 7th century those Versöhnungsort vulnerable, of the Navid Kermani reported in his speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade – Christians from all over the world come by, but also Arab Muslims get shelter. In “Parsifal” Prelude stored in a decaying church nor the refugees, heavily armed soldiers search the warehouse, then of course up space for the guardians who perform their ritual.
King Amfortas has sinned, is wounded in the soul, but he needs to play in a oberammergauerischen spectacle. This is after the transformation of music ( “the space, the time here”) with a Star Trek Special cinema, a photo trip once to the stars and back, celebrates dramatically. This community (triumphal as always the Festival Chorus) are in fact not satisfied with the symbolic celebration of Holy Communion, they kill with Amfortas (differentiated suffering: Ryan McKinny) almost a Jesus-performer on the font and then drinks the blood. No wonder that Parsifal is imported from Gurnemanz in this Christian knight Club, is quite upset. The monk Gurnemanz’s Georg Zeppenfeld the unexcited fatherly way: The word “sonorous” could be invented for this Bassbariton downright: slag-free, deep sound singing
The second act then. Klingsor’s magic garden here as Harem passes, oriental tiled in church. Klingsor (Gerd Grochowski) is that instinctive evil, who emasculated himself, therefore excluded from the Gralsritterbund and now crucifixes collect as phallic substitute. Parsifal is a warrior with the machine gun at the ready, strikes black hooded Muslim, but soon undress and tended to induce a flower girl in bikini with belly dances like from the Hollywood of the 50s and in the pool the pure fool. Kundry, the primal mother, the ever driven that had mocked the Saviour on the cross, the femme fatale, informs him about the sin – the director commented on the figurative, shows how Amfortas once slept with Kundry. And then mobilized Parsifal, so he Klingsor spear Steal, the rule character will break.
Does the now anything to do with Islam? But we must not always ask how Richard Wagner himself actually meant by the “Parsifal”. Director Laufenberg was ahead of the premiere numerous interviews to explain his work: The on stage visual and explainable behaves this course in a inversely proportional relationship. Also the staff is often undisturbed on the ramp as the statuesque times of Wolfgang Wagner saved.
It was only in the third act Laufenberg becomes concrete. The holy Karfreitagszauber this Bühnenweihfestspiel: The monastery, which literally breaks away the foundation, is now overgrown with plants. The Living Desert, and how. A celebration of creaturely. It is not only baptized and anointed, there breaks out tropical rain, girls dancing in the water naked. The new old paradise. Men, women, children rush in and be prepared for the group picture: We are the people forget the religions. The old Kundry put them in a wheelchair, it is now about Abraham’s wife and happy grandmother. The soprano Elena Pankratova makes this game so been through, but that can also: gives the effervescent shrew that erotic ensnaring as lovingly Serving
The last supper then. The time and again clothed Parsifal, the probably even do not know exactly to his true self, not really revealed the Grail, he cleans up. The tenor Klaus Florian Vogt sings command gänsehaut moderately as a salvific Lohengrin, with a pure, clear voice, as not quite of this world. but now also dissolves everything: representatives of the monotheistic religions put their crosses, candlesticks, prayer cloths in the coffin. Away with it. Only man counts. These Wagner wonderful redemption music, “through compassion Knowing”. A great pantheistic embrace finals with social order. Close to the kitsch, not necessarily original, but also poignant in times of religious terror.
Democratic interval audience
celebrity Who is prominently? In Bayreuth about the actor Edgar Selge and Udo Wachtveitl, but everything stops is very limited compared to the swanky Salzburg. Nevertheless, the festival usually put the guests of honor from the red carpet at the entrance to the central box. But he was – as the state receiving – canceled out of respect for the victims of the Munich school shooting. Katharina Wagner, the festival boss, over it was not sad, she moderated anyway prefer the transfer of “Parsifal” at the movies. Not every minister will have regretted it, to be allowed six hours Wagner not sweat at the Festspielhaus. And the normal public could stroll this time fully, did not have to stare at the fenced celebrities who commuted between Festspielhaus Steigenberger restaurant.
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