#Parsifal

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Parsifal: Flower Maiden "Veilchen" Costume. Heinrich Lefler, 1914. From The New York Public Library.

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Illustrations from Richard Wagner's Parsifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail by Willy Pogany (1912)

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The Apparition of the Grail to Percival, Pinckney Marcius-Simons, ca. 1904

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Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916), Parsifal, 1892. Lithograph on China paper applied to vellum, image 32.2 x 24.3 cm.; plate 52 x 40 cm. 50 copies printed by Becquet in Paris

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Parzival by Fidus

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i have one question and one question only about the met 25/26 season and it’s GIRARD PARSIFAL RETURNS WHEN, YOU LOT OF BASTARDS

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Iŀlustració de Willy Pogany per a una edició de Parzival, de Wolfram von Eschenbach, 1912.

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Parsifal on the Way to the Grail Castle by Ferdinand Leeke

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'For how can one assign a sex to a being born androgynous?'

'How does a woman live in a man's body, and vice versa?' - Androgynous Parsifal I / II.

"Syberberg divides Parsifal, making a marvelous young girl emerge by dehiscence, whose mouth lets through the voice of tenor. A reciprocal vampirization."

"Marcel Proust opened up new perspectives for me on the confusion of genders. His niece, Suzy Mantes-Proust, gave me access to the archives of her father, Professor Robert Proust. In particular, a file on hermaphroditism in which he was already asking the questions: What is sexuality? What is gender? How does a woman live in a man's body, and vice versa? For how can one assign a sex to a being born androgynous?"

Fernande Gontier: Man or Woman? The Confusion of Sexes

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In Syberberg's film Parsifal, the Wagnerian hero transforms into a woman resembling a Virgin by Dirk Bouts:

Alain Badiou: "The performer of Parsifal is doubled, meaning that it is both a young man and a young woman. Either the addition of sexes or the indifferentiation or hesitation of sexes."

Pascal Bonitzer: "Syberberg divides Parsifal, making a marvelous young girl (Karin Krick) emerge by dehiscence, whose mouth lets through the voice of tenor Reiner Goldberg… A reciprocal vampirization and hand-to-hand struggle, a formidable interpenetration of cinema and opera, of Wagner and Syberberg, of the complex mouth-throat-larynx of the actors and the voices of the singers, of bodies and sets, of depth and surface, of the grand and the small—a stunning fusion of staging with a sublime orchestration…

Parsifal is beyond everything; it is extra-being, yet it is one of the most magnificent things ever to appear on a screen. Here, cinema is invented, surges forth with the force and self-evidence of genius, transforms all the parameters of cinema, traverses the history of film, theater, and painting, brings forth bodies and landscapes in a tension, in a light never seen before, asserts the unreal and the impossible with incredible power, plays with all dimensions, all wanderings, all dislocations of body and face, plays with playback with such genius that direct sound almost seems, by comparison, a petty concern of timid technicians…"

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Willy Pogany. Illustration of Richard Wagner’s "Parsifal".

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Contents Page from Richard Wagner's Parsifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail by Willy Pogany (1912)

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Willy Pogany

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Joseph Urban (1872-1933), 'Titurel's Vision', ''Parsifal'', 1920 Source

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Parsifal in Quest of the Holy Grail by Ferdinand Leeke

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Parsifal (1982) directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg is now available! Check out genderfluid Percy!

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P. Craig Russell

Parsifal

adaptation by Patrick Mason; P. Craig Russell and Tom Orzechowski/Annette Kawecki

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