Event listing: Good Friday: Gergiev Conducts Parsifal | Symphony Hall | Fri 6 Apr 2012 at 16:00

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Symphony HallBroad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2EA, United Kingdom

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Programme

Performers

Soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky Theatre Chorus
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Valery Gergiev	Conductor
Ladies of Ex Cathedra
Avgust Amonov	Tenor	Parsifal
Larisa Gogolevskaya	Soprano	Kundry
Evgeny Nikitin	Bass-baritone	Amfortas
Nikolai Putilin	Bass	Klingsor
Yuri Vorobiev	Bass	Gurnemanz

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Gergiev and the Mariinsky excel in Wagner's Parsifal at the Birmingham Symphony Hall

Andrew H. King, 9th April

Why attend a concert performance of an opera? What is the point without the action and the spectacle collectively resulting in, hopefully, the awe-inspiring whole? In answer to this I should like to suggest that concert performances of opera are the perfect opportunity to really ‘get under the skin’ of a work, for two principal reasons.

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