Artistic director and conductor: Adam Fischer
Performers:
Lauri Vasar – Amfortas
Ferenc Cserhalmi – Titurel
Albert Pesendorfer – Gurnemanz
Peter Seiffert – Parsifal
Jürgen Linn – Klingsor
Violeta Urmana – Kundry
Péter Kiss – First Grail Knight
Ákos Ambrus – Second Grail Knight
Zita Váradi, Ildikó Szakács, Krisztina Simon, Gabi Gál, Eszter Wierdl, Gabriella Balga – Flowermaidens
Atala Schöck – Voice from Above
members of the Wiener Sängerknaben – First and second squire
Zoltán Megyesi – Third squire
József Mukk – Fourth squire
Bence Vas – Parsifal as a child
Featuring: The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir (choirmaster: Zoltán Pad), The Hungarian Radio Children's Choir (choirmaster: László Matos), Hungarian National Choir (choirmaster: Csaba Somos)
Zoltán Csere, Zoltán Katonka, Gábor Bora, Gábor Vida – Guards of Amfortas
Creators: Magdolna Parditka, Alexandra Szemerédy – direction, set design, Károly Györgyfalvai – lighting, János Kovács – assistant conductor, Orsolya Fajger – chief musical assistant, Dóra Bizják, Friedrich Suckel, László Bartal, Richard Lewis – musical assistants, Albert Mányik – assistant to the director
It was with this highly successful production that the Budapest Wagner Days began in 2006, and since then the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, with the choirs singing on different floors, has conveyed the magical sound of the Wagnerian orchestra in unparalleled fashion. As a musician with a native understanding of the Wagner idiom, and true to the traditions of the Budapest Wagner Days, Adam Fischer once again works here with world-renowned Wagnerian singers in the highly acclaimed staging by Magdolna Parditka and Alexandra Szemerédy. Violeta Urmana, who is still one of the finest dramatic sopranos working today, has demonstrated her qualities in lead operatic roles under conductors including Claudio Abbado, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez and Lorin Maazel. In the title role, the late German tenor Peter Seiffert, who has since sadly passed away, had built his career as a Wagnerian singer in Bayreuth from the mid-1990s, and featured in the title role on Daniel Barenboim’s Grammy Award-winning recording of Tannhäuser.
German-language performance, with Hungarian subtitles.
This recording was made at a concert held at Müpa Budapest on 21 June 2017.
Presented by: Müpa Budapest
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