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Wagner: Parsifal from Teatro Massimo, Palermo

In Palermo conductor Omer Meir Wellber makes a highly successful debut as music director of Palermo’s Teatro Massimo.

In Palermo where Richard Wagner composed this monumental opera during a long stay, conductor Omer Meir Wellber makes a highly successful debut as music director of Palermo’s Teatro Massimo, architecturally and artistically one of Italy’s most impressive opera houses. “With the Teatro Massimo’s excellent orchestra he succeded in a reading that was absolutely straight forward” (Opera Today). The singers are excellently cast especially Julian Hubbard as Parsifal “who was a sensation” (neue musikzeitung). Stage director “Graham Vick strips Parsifal of mysticism to deliver a powerful indictment of divisive ideologies” (Musical America).

Original title Wagner: Parsifal from Teatro Massimo, Palermo
Genre Opera
Recording location Teatro Massimo, Palermo, 2020
Duration 225 mins
Production Company A co-production of UNITEL, Arte Concert and Teatro Massimo
Composer Richard Wagner
Orchestra / Band Orchestra del Teatro Massimo
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber
Choir Coro del Teatro Massimo
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
Stage Director Graham Vick
Soloist Tomas Tomasson, Alexei Tanovitski, John Relyea, Julian Hubbard, Catherine Hunold