"Parsifal" at Bayreuther Festspiele, Germany
Richard Wagner's "Parsifal" will soon be on stage at Bayreuther Festspiele, Germany from July 30 through August 26, 2019.Wagner's last completed opera was first produced at the second Bayreuth Festival in 1882. Wagner described Parsifal not as an opera, but as "Ein Buhnenweihfestspiel (A Festival Play for the Consecration of the Stage)."This musically and thematically-rich opera apparently explores the ideas of self-…