. A guide to Parsifal, the music drama of Richard Wagner; its origin, story, and music. t upon Par-sifal in January, 1882. Already, however, preparations for the first per-formance had been going forward. In Italy Wag-ner had met the Russian painter, Paul Joukowsky,with whom he had worked out the details of thestage settings, the architectural style of the Castleof the Grail, and Klingsors magic stronghold, thelandscape effects, the Oriental splendor of themagic garden, the costumes and accessories of allsorts. Then followed the preliminary rehearsalswith the singers, active formulation of pla
. A guide to Parsifal, the music drama of Richard Wagner; its origin, story, and music. t upon Par-sifal in January, 1882. Already, however, preparations for the first per-formance had been going forward. In Italy Wag-ner had met the Russian painter, Paul Joukowsky,with whom he had worked out the details of thestage settings, the architectural style of the Castleof the Grail, and Klingsors magic stronghold, thelandscape effects, the Oriental splendor of themagic garden, the costumes and accessories of allsorts. Then followed the preliminary rehearsalswith the singers, active formulation of plans withmachinists and experts in stage management, allthe work of preparation in detail, even before thescore was finished. In six months the work wasready for its production. THE FIRST PERFORIVIANCE. The first performance took place on July 26,1882, in the Festival Theatre at Bayreuth, whichwas then reopened to the public for the first timesince the memorable production of Der Ringdes Nibelungen, in 1876. This performance, andthe one next following it on July 28, were reserved [10]. The Origins of Parsifal for the members of the Wagner Societies; thethird and the thirteen succeeding performances —there were sixteen in all — were open to the pub-lic. The occasion was of an importance to themusical world comparable to that of the firstNibelung performances; and, like those, thefirst representations of Parsifal were throngedwith musicians, critics and amateurs from all overthe world. After the manner of Bayreuth, sev-eral of the personages in the cast was representedby two or three different artists in rotation. Thecasts at the first performances were as follows: »,, ^^ ^ ( Reichmann ( FuchsTiTUREL Kindermann GURNEMANZ | ^?^^^ ( GudehusParsifal -^ Winkelmann ( JaegerKlingsor Hill ( MaternaKuNDRY ?< Malten ( Marianne BrandtConductors, Hermann Levi, Franz Fischer. The first performance of Parsifal outside ofBayreuth — disregarding various representationsthat were given in
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