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Parsifal

Opera Vlaanderen, GhentSchouwburgstraat 3, Ghent, East Flanders, 9000, Belgium
Dates/times in Brussels time zone
Tuesday 23 September 202517:30
Friday 26 September 202517:30
Sunday 28 September 202515:00
Wednesday 01 October 202517:30
Performers
Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Alejo PérezConductor
Susanne KennedyDirector
Markus SelgSet Designer
Andra DumitrascuCostume Designer
Sascha ZaunerLighting Designer
Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Koor Opera Vlaanderen
Kartal KaragedikBaritoneAmfortas
Werner Van MechelenBaritoneKlingsor
Dshamilja KaiserSopranoKundry
Benjamin BrunsTenorParsifal
Albert DohmenBass-baritoneGurnemanz
Martins SakhumziTenorFirst knight of the Grail
Kurt RydlBassTiturel
Timothy VeryserTenorFourth squire
Emanuel TomljenovićTenorThird squire
Sawako KayakiSopranoFirst squire, First Flowermaiden / Second Group
Samson SetuBass-baritoneSecond knight of the Grail
Jessica StakenburgMezzo-sopranoSecond squire, Third Flowermaiden / Second Group
Maria ChabouniaSopranoFirst Flowermaiden / First Group
Ondelwa MartinsSopranoSecond Flowermaiden / First Group
Idunnu MünchSopranoThird Flowermaiden / First Group
Zofia HannaSopranoSecond Flowermaiden / Second Group


Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg present a brand-new production of Wagner's last music drama Parsifal, which has a special connection with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. They place the ritual dimension in the foreground and promise us an immersive viewing and listening experience. A religious community unites around the Grail – a mysterious object that provides spiritual and material nourishment and inspires good deeds. The group has been in a deep crisis since the moral fall of its leader Amfortas. His incurable wound, caused by the Holy Spear, can only be healed by 'a pure fool, through compassion knowing'. In the child of nature Parsifal they recognise the redeemer. Kennedy and Selg invite the audience to take the same journey as the main character – a path of growing empathy and inner transformation. This new, visually stunning Parsifal connects with the authentic core of the age-old story on which Wagner based his work, and does so in a resolutely contemporary language.

© Markus Selg
© Markus Selg
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