tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post114895923704108236..comments2024-03-16T08:02:38.070-04:00Comments on wellsung.blogspot.com: ParsifalAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748408812275965064noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-1149031235870469812006-05-30T19:20:00.000-04:002006-05-30T19:20:00.000-04:00I like your remarks -- for all the supposed triump...I like your remarks -- for all the supposed triumphalism, there is something very dark and sinister from the very first hesitating crescendo, as if to suggest: THIS is what your idiot prince will bring you: certain wounds will be healed, but OTHER wounds will be inflicted and continue to fester. I don't know that Wagner wanted us to hear the opera this way, though the ritualism and the springtime setting certainly suggest that kind of cyclical interpretation. Though Wagner's probably would have been the more postitivist interpretation. But it's hard not to listen to the opera more cynically, esp. in light of the 20th century and -- thus far at least -- the 21st century.Chalkenteroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08435851223758000117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-1149015096144143442006-05-30T14:51:00.000-04:002006-05-30T14:51:00.000-04:00There's really something about that big tour aroun...There's really something about that big tour around the circle of fifths (plagally) at the end that just melts your brain, ain't it? I've spent a surprising amount of my life already with Parsifal, and after seeing it twice in two productions in 10 days on top of all the studying, it feels seared permanently into my brain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18540063.post-1148999203832138712006-05-30T10:26:00.000-04:002006-05-30T10:26:00.000-04:00Wonderful way of putting it; a new universe is ind...Wonderful way of putting it; a new universe is indeed exposed in the final scene of Parsifal. I think the phrase that always pops into my mind when I hear the last scene is "bathed in the light knowledge," although I'm not sure how apt that is, unless we equate knowledge with redemption.Virginia Tech Piano Lithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01395212670421827604noreply@blogger.com