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| | Amazon.com: Wagner: Parsifal: Music: Jan-Hendrik Rootering,Kurt Moll,Richard Wagner,James Levin,James Levine,Jane ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Wagner's last opera was a vehicle for two things that he had dreamed about all his life - staging a great final opera in a spectacular and futuristic theatre of his own management and featuring the mystic Holy Grail as the focus. |
 | | After his death, Cosima Wagner ran Bayreuth and saw to it that Parsifal remained intact exactly as Wagner intended, though through the course of time, and especially in the last 20 plus years, directors have changed Parsifal to their own metaphysical visions. |
 | | Though it is common knowledge that Richard Wagner and his family closely guarded his final masterwork PARSIFAL, forbidding performances outside his theater at Bayreuth for years after his death, the reason for this overprotective custody of this penultimate Sacred Piece is readily evident when the opera is experienced in today's opera houses. |
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