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Parsifal : the search for the grail

Title: Parsifal : the search for the grail / Richard Wagner ; directed by Tony Palmer ; produced by Mike Bluett ; co-produced by RM Arts [and others].
Publication: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur : Distributed worldwide by RM Associates and RAI trade, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

This documentary about Wagner's Parsifal explores the history of the grail tradition and how it has been represented in various works, and details the background in which Wagner wrote his final opera.

Alternative Title

Search for the grail
Parsifal

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Credits (note)

Choreography, Alexei Miroshnicenko ; designed by Yevgeny Lysk ; lighting by Vladimir Lukasewica ; costumes by John Hibbs, Nedezhda Pavlova ; photographed by Simon Bray ... [et al.] ; executive producers, Reiner E. Moritz ... [et al.] ; concert associate producer, Fiorenza Scholey.

Performer (note)

Plácido Domingo (Parsifal), and narration ; Violeta Urmana (Kundry) ; Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz) ; Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor) ; Feodor Mojhaev (Amfortas) ; with The Kirov Orchestra and Choir ; Valery Gergiev, conductor.

Event (note)

Filmed on location in St. Petersburg, Russia; Bayreuth, Germany; and Ravello and Siena, Italy; the scenes from the Parsifal concert were filmed at the Ravello Wagner Festival.

System Details (note)

DVD video; Dolby digital.

Language (note)

Narration in English; dialogue and vocal selections in German with English subtitles.

ISBN

156127850X : (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

032031185098

OCLC

ocm47906499
SCSB-9054280

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Columbia University Libraries