Performer: Jessica Karge

Despite its enigmatic details, Bayreuth's Parsifal reaches a cathartic climax. 

Christian von Götz's production doesn't all work, but he makes a viable, thought-provoking and entertaining show out of Weber's spooky classic.

Uwe Eric Laufenberg sets his new staging of Wagner's final opera among the persecuted Christians of the contemporary Middle East – but avoids preaching.