Parsifal
Otto Schenk (Producer), Phebe Berkowitz (Director), Brian Large (Director), Bernd Weikl (Singer), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Singer), Siegfried Jerusalem (Singer), Kurt Moll (Singer), Franz Mazura (Singer), Waltraud Meier (Singer), James Levine (Conductor), Richard Wagner, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Ballet, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Chorus, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (Performer), Metropolitan Opera Television (Firm), Deutsche Grammophon (Firm)
An interpretation of Wagner's last opera of German and Christian mythology, set in the Middle Ages, and centering on the brotherhood of Grail knights who guard "the chalice in which the blood of the crucified Saviour had once been caught." [Guide, p.8]
DVD Video, German, ©2002, 1994
Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg, ©2002, 1994