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Richard Wagner: Parsifal (1993)

Richard Wagner: Parsifal (1993)

Music
Release Date: 1993, April 7
Directors: Otto Schenk, Brian Large
Countries: United States of America
Production: Deutsche Grammophon
Cast: Paul Groves, Siegfried Jerusalem, Waltraud Meier, Franz Mazura, Bernd Weikl, Wendy White, Jane Bunnell, Bernard Fitch, Kurt Moll, Jeffrey Wells, Garrick Utley, Jan-Hendrik Rootering

Overview:

The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring cycle. Kurt Moll is a wonderful Gurnemanz, but compared to his studio recording under Karajan a decade earlier it has lost some of its original velvety body and luster. As Parsifal, Jerusalem is starting to show some wear and tear on his voice at the Met in 1992 as opposed to his prime form at Bayreuth in 1981, but is still quite good; only Placido Domingo could compete with him in the role at that time.

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