. A guide to Parsifal, the music drama of Richard Wagner; its origin, story, and music. laying about him as hecomes, disabling the castle guards and mountingthe garden wall. Change of scene: The wholecastle sinks; and there rises in its place the magicgarden full of tropical vegetation and a luxuriouswealth of flowers, a place of allurement, glowingwith light and color. At the back, a wall, uponwhich stands Parsifal, gazing in astonishment atthe scene before him. A throng of beautiful dam-sels appear in haste, as if suddenly disturbed fromsleep. They bewail the loss of their lovers, thecastle
. A guide to Parsifal, the music drama of Richard Wagner; its origin, story, and music. laying about him as hecomes, disabling the castle guards and mountingthe garden wall. Change of scene: The wholecastle sinks; and there rises in its place the magicgarden full of tropical vegetation and a luxuriouswealth of flowers, a place of allurement, glowingwith light and color. At the back, a wall, uponwhich stands Parsifal, gazing in astonishment atthe scene before him. A throng of beautiful dam-sels appear in haste, as if suddenly disturbed fromsleep. They bewail the loss of their lovers, thecastle guards, whom Parsifal has so quickly dis-posed of, and call upon the rosy youth to comeand play with them. Parsifal descends amongthem and listens to their chatter and their en-dearments. One after another they slip away andreturn in the guise of living flowers. Pressingaround Parsifal, they ply him with their blandish-ments. At first amused, then half angry at their/ insistence, he turns to make his escape, when he? hears his name called by Kundrys voice:Parsifal —tarry!V [26]. The Story of Wagners Parsifal It is the first time it has been stops short: Parsifal? he says; so oncemy mother called me. Kundry, still invisible,beseeches him to stay. Finally she is seen throughthe branches — but how transformed in appear-ance! Now she is a young woman of exquisitebeauty, clad in a drapery of shimmering irides-cence, of orchid-like color, showing the glint ofemeralds and fiery opals. Reclining upon a flow-ery couch, she is a figure of wondrous calls him again by his name: Fal Parsi —so Wagner attempts to derive the name Parsi-fal from Arabic words meaning foolish pureone; she tells him of his mother, Herzeleide; ofhis own babyhood, of her care for him, of hergrief at his departure and of her death. Parsifal,terribly affected, sinks down at Kundrys feetoverpowered, overwhelmed with enchantress begins her wiles; wreathing herarm abo
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