Parsifal
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Parsifal is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Wagner's own libretto for the work is freely based on the 13th-century Middle High German chival
Amalie Materna, Emil Scaria and Hermann Winkelmann in the first production of the Bühnenweihfestspiel at the Bayreuth Festival
Drawing for a libretto cover page by Peter Hoffer (undated)
Poster for the premiere production of Parsifal, 1882
Scene design for the controversial 1903 production at the Metropolitan Opera: Gurnemanz leads Parsifal to Monsalvat (act 1)
Perceval
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Perceval, alternatively called Peredur, is a figure in the legend of King Arthur, often appearing as one of the Knights of the Round Table. First mentioned by the French author Chrétien de Troyes in t
Parsifal
…ou le Conte du Graal by the 12th-century trouvère Chrétien de Troyes, recounting different accounts of the story of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his spiritual quest for the Holy Grail. Wagner conceived the work in April 1857 but did not finish it until 25 years later. In composing it he…
Parsifal by Rogelio de Egusquiza (1910)
Perceval in Newell Convers Wyeth's illustration for Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur (1922)
Arthur Hacker's 1894 illustration of a scene from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, in which Perceval is tempted by a devil in the form of a beautiful woman