Parsifal
The schedule of the theatre trip:
14:00 departure from Brno, from Janáček Theatre
17:00 arrival to Vienna
18:00 start of the performance
23:20 end of the performance
23:45 departure
1:45 arrival in Brno
The ordre of the Knights of the Holy Grail has fallen into crisis. Time and again, knights desert to the counter-realm of the sorcerer Klingsor, who had previously been rejected by the circle of knights. With the aid of seducing women led by Kundry, he leads the knights astray. He was even able to tempt the Grail King Amfortas into a misstep, during which he stole his sacred spear and inflicted an incurable wound. As a result, Amfortas’ ritual duty of unveiling the Grail has become an ordeal. Only a pure fool is destined to reverse the Grail King’s fall from grace and undo its devastating consequences.
Direction Susanne Kennedy
Concept Susanne Kennedy, Markus Selg
Musical Direction Yi-Chen Lin
Stage design, Video Markus Selg
Collaboration video design, Creative technologies Warja Rybakova
Costume Andra Dumitrascu
Light design Sascha Zauner
Choreography Dominic Santia
Dramaturgy Tobias Staab
Music dramaturgy Piet De Volder
Coproduction Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) I Free Republic of Vienna
Orchestra ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien
Choir Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen
Performers: Russell Thomas (Parsifal), Dshamilja Kaiser (Kundry, Stimme aus der Höhe), Albert Dohmen (Gurnemanz), Kartal Karagedik (Amfortas), Werner Van Mechelen (Klingsor), Kurt Rydl (Titurel), Werner van Mechelen (Klinsor), Kartal Karagedik (Amfortas), Lulama Taifasi (First Grail Knight), Smelo Mahlangu (Second Grail Knight), Chelsea Guo (First Squire/Fourth Flower Maiden), Camila Aguilera Yañez (Second Squire/Sixth Flower Maiden), Martin Piskorski (Third Squire), Timothy Veryser (Fourth Squire), Maria Chabounia (First Flower Maiden), Ondelwa Martins (Second Flower Maiden), Mira Alkhovik (Third Flower Maiden), Zofia Hana (Fifth Flower Maiden), Dshamilija Kaiser (Voice from Above), Dominic Santia (Performer/Choreographer), Ixchel Mendoza, Melyn Chow, Sjaid Foncé, Martina de Domenic, Anna Maria Sturm (Performers) and others