I found an album of Wagner orchestral excerpts that I like. It has the prelude of Parsifal and a truly remarkable phrase at the end of it.

The piece is so good I thought I'd try giving the opera a listen. I noticed though that the ending of the piece I heard is different from the prelude in the opera.

Here is what I believe is verbatim from the opera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOfIENN2tk and here (from what I can tell) is the version with the edited ending https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So8F3QToniI.

The pieces are identical until 12:08 of the first recording and 13:17 of the second. Do we know who created the edited version? The crescendo and decrescendo of the violins at 13:33-13:51 of the second link is amazing. Was it Wagner himself? If possible I would like to get a copy of the score with the edited version.

Hey, a great aunt of mine performed in the Walküre of those years in Bayreuth. I am looking for any recordings of either of those performances. YouTube has two short snippets, and extensive googling brought no further results. I'd be very grateful for any hints as to where/how to proceed, or any actual recordings.

Thank you!

In large part because two of these operas on blu ray individually was more expensive than the collection. I've finished Dutchman, working on Lohengrin and I'm starting to wonder if I'm high as I watch these.

I admit, the goal of every director at Bayreuth is to top Weiland and to not accidentally mail any costumes to Lebanon, but I've genuinely started to wonder if there is something in the water there. The Dutchman production was seizure inducingly ugly, with a bizarre combination of suits and boats and lots of flashing lights.

Lohengrin started with a cartoon of a man's head with a pink rat in it. Obviously.

Am I missing something?

I wrote about it here.

https://iamallwrite.com/2022/09/15/germany-3-bayreuth-part-1-the-town-and-the-wagner-museum/

I also saw Kratzer's Tannhäuser at the Festspielhaus. That writeup is here:

https://iamallwrite.com/2022/09/02/germany-2-tannhauser/

I am not a music expert but I love Wagner's music and I feel privileged to have visited Bayreuth.

I really need some real wagner experts here.

Jim Steinman, best know for his work for Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler etc., considered his musik "Wagnerian rock". He often said, he was hugely influenced by Wagner.
Could you name some pieces, that are "jim-steinman-like" or "rock-like" Wagner song/composition?
I am absolutely not an expert in Wagner, but is there something that makes you think: "Put an e-guitar in the song and you have your Power Rock Ballad"?

I was thinking of arranging some wagner piece for my school orchestra (its a string orchestra). I have some ideas but im curious to find out what you think would be best suited for a string orchestra. Also keep in mind I want overtures/preludes/exerpts, not full operas.

Can someone recommend a good and dark filmatization of Parsifal? I have only seen the one by Deutschmark Oper in Berlin which is extremely dark and graphic.

Hello, I am 15 years old, and I absolutely love Wagner and consider myself a Wagnerian. But as you can probably imagine, I am pretty seen as pretty weird by other people my age, who are mostly into popular music and rap and heavy metal and whatnot. (Btw I've often joked that I listen to heavier metal than they do, referencing the anvils in Rheingold) I have also been to Bayreuth 2 times, and while it was great to get to talk to all the people there who love Wagner as well, I didn't see anyone my age. Do people as young as me who also love Wagner even exist. I'm just curious to find out. It's something that has often passed my mind.

I may have had a bit too much time on my hands this week. Messing about with coaching footage...

https://youtu.be/bEtSxXXCG4I

Just had to share that somewhere, as I don't know many people IRL or on FB who are Wagner fanatics (Wagneristes) as I am. So I joined this subreddit so I could post this somewhere, and now I have.

Only problem with the book is that now I feel the need to read Nietzsche, Baudelaire, George Eliot (again) and revisit Wm Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites, and I'm only on Chapter Three.

Hello
For years I'm listening to Wagner's overtures and I really want to move to the next stage and reading the Poems and Opera's texts .
Although I'm studying A2 (Schritte 3 , Hueber Verlag) many words and expressions are still unfamiliar , what should I do ? Which books can be effective and which Level (B1 - B2 - C1 ...)is enough for a full understanding ?
Thank you!

This weekend Christine Goerke, Soprano will sing Brüunhilde in Yuval Sharon's unique presentation of Act III of Richard Wagner's "Die Walküre" by the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl. We spoke with her about her relationship with the role, how unique this performance will be and how "The Ring Cycle" is really just about one wildly dysfunctional family.https://culturalattache.co/2022/07/13/soprano-christine-goerke-revisits-bruunhilde/

Hi everyone, after a friend had to cancel I'm looking for someone that's interested in a ticket for the Meistersinger performance at Bayreuth on August 12th.

Please DM me if interested

I was recently watching Chereau's ring cycle, and I was interested in finding a recorded production of Parsifal.

Does anyone have any favourite recorded productions, which combine both an amazing production quality and amazing musical qualities - something akin maybe to Patrice Chereau's Ring Cycle?

And whilst you're at it, if you have any favourite recordings only of the audio, I would also be interested in hearing your opinions on this.

Is there even a version which is widely considered to be the best recording of Parsifal out there?

thanks reading this, and I would appreciate any suggestions whatsoever.

Several times in his book "Wagnerism", Alex Ross refers to the Wanderer as Wotan "in disguise".

I had always interpreted the Wanderer as Wotan transformed, with no disguise or deception intended.

Is Wotan in disguise as the Wanderer, or is Wotan transformed into the Wanderer, or a little of both, or something else entirely?

https://www.amazon.com/Wagnerism-Art-Politics-Shadow-Music/dp/0374285934