SLOVENIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SLOVENIAN CHAMBER CHOIR CONSORTIUM MUSICUM CHOIR

Soloists:
Janez Lotrič, tenor
Konrad Jarnot, baritone
Kurt Rydl, bass
Katarina Lenarčič, soprano

Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra
Slovenian Chamber Choir
Consortium Musicum Choir
Academic Choir Tone Tomšič - APZ (Akademski pevski zbor Tone Tomšič)
conductor Emmanuel Villaume

Programme:
R. Wagner, Parsifal, 3rd Act

In 1876, one of Wagner’s greate st wishes was realised with the mounting of the first Bayreuth Festival. At that time, one of his key works had not yet been written. The premiere of Parsifal was given in 1882, with the generous financial support of Ludwig II. The story of the opera is based on the Christian myth of the Holy Grail and the legend of King Arthur and his knights. Wagner wrote the opera as a kind of ritual performance, with which the stage is supposed to be consecrated. Thus even today Parsifal remains the opening performance of each year’s Bayreuth Festival. The power of the composer’s feeling for the archetypal converges in a special way in the third act, in a description of the ritual of the Holy Grail and the celebration of Good Friday.