Richard Wagner: Parsifal

The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring cycle. Kurt Moll is a wonderful Gurnemanz, but compared to his studio recording under Karajan a decade earlier it has lost some of its original velvety body and luster. As Parsifal, Jerusalem is starting to show some wear and tear on his voice at the Met in 1992 as opposed to his prime form at Bayreuth in 1981, but is still quite good; only Placido Domingo could compete with him in the role at that time.

• Brian LargeDirector
• Richard WagnerWriter
• Richard WagnerOriginal Music Composer
• Otto SchenkDirector

• Bernd WeiklAmfortas
• Siegfried JerusalemParsifal
• Waltraud MeierKundry
• Kurt MollGurnemanz
• Jan-Hendrik RooteringTiturel
• Franz MazuraKlingsor
• Heidi Grant MurphyKnappe erste
• Jane BunnellKnappe zweite
• John Horton MurrayKnappe dritte
• Bernard FitchKnappe vierte
• Paul GrovesRitter erste
• Jeffrey WellsRitter zweite