Last time I saw Parsifal there was nobody on a cross - sounds like an interesting interpretation...One could have Kundry hanging naked on the cross all the way through, while Parsifal carries his monster albatross (or is it a swan? the swans are reserved for the dons) on his back, sorta neo-existentialist. The Grail knights all wear fishnet stockings, and Amfortas is heavily into S&M. Probably been done - I've seen versions with two each of Parsifal & Kundry, with Parsifal changing sex in the middle of the 2nd act, etc, but they can't make it weirder than it already is. It certainly weirded out Nietzsche, who claimed he preferred Carmen - liar...
mj
Wenn vollkommene Herrschaft über seinen Gegenstand die freie kunstreiche Ausbildung desselben möglich macht, so können doch die künstlichen Schraubengänge der Polemik nicht die Form der Philosophie sein.
If perfect mastery of one's subject makes its free, artistic development possible, then the merely artificial turns of the polemical screw cannot be the form of philosophy.
F.W.J. Schelling
No one does. I was making a desperate effort at a comparison. Oh
well. We have titling here too, sub- and sur-. But way back when if
you didn't know the basic libretto outlines, it could be a long day.
Easter Sunday 1960 I sat through *Parsifal* without knowing squat about
what was going on. Who was on the cross again?....
k
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