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- Parsifal is a strange and enigmatic work. At the end of his life, did Wagner wish to celebrate asceticism, which he himself had never practised? Did he fall upon his knees before the Cross, as claimed by Nietzsche? And what does the secret society of knights based on pure blood signify, desperately waiting for the saviour to regenerate it? What is the true nature of the opposition between the worlds of Klingsor and the Grail? What can Parsifal tell us today? In his artistic will and testament, Wagner condenses his moral idea of the world and returns to the roots of love and religion - to the very heart of art according to him. With the participation of conductor Hartmut Haenchen who is passionated by the score, Italian stage director Romeo Castellucci proposes an original reading of this brilliant work and explores the essence of Wagnerian 'Kunstreligion' in a different light.
- Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore, based on the eponymous play by Spanish playwright Antonio García Gutiérrez, takes us to 15th c. northern Spain to witness the tragic destiny of those under the control of Azucena, who is seeking to avenge the death of his mother. The first percussion notes are solemn, setting the tone for Verdi's masterpiece, whose main themes include abandonment, passion, power, love for one's parents and vengeance. This production marked the debut of Russian stage director Dmitri Tcherniakov at La Monnaie and the first Verdi interpretation by Marc Minkowski.
- South African-born artist and director William Kentridge is the stage director for this captivating and thought-provoking production of Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro alla Scala in Milano, with the RAI version directed by Patrizia Carmine.
- Based, in part, on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is Verdi's last work for the stage - and only his second comic opera. And yet the humour in this multilayered masterpiece is distinctly wry, for all the main characters exhibit an array of human weaknesses that are implacably exposed by Verdi and his librettist Arrigo Boito.
- In János Darvas' film, Pappano speaks about his career and his views on music.
- The Mark Morris Dance Group's version of "The Nutcracker Suite" with a gender reversal of roles with male dancers portraying female characters and Marianne Moore portraying Fritz. Set in the 1960s and 1970s with the toys modernized: the mouse shows shades of Elvis and the soldiers are dressed as G.I. Joes.
- Theater director Stein Winge has lost his wife Kari. Then he gets help from his daughter Viktoria in order to get through grief.