Parsifal: Performance History
First performance: 26 July 1882,
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth
Cast:
- Parsifal : Hermann Winkelmann
- Amfortas : Theodor Reichmann
- Gurnemanz : Emil Scaria
- Titurel : August Kindermann
(also created roles of Wotan in Das Rheingold and
Die Walküre)
- Klingsor : Karl Hill
(also created role of Alberich in the Ring)
- Kundry : Amalia Materna
(also created role of Brünnhilde in the Ring)
- 1 Gralsritter : Anton Fuchs
- 2 Gralsritter : Eugen Stumpf
- 1 Knappe : Hermine Galfy
(also created role of a Flowermaiden)
- 2 Knappe : Mathilde Keil
- 3 Knappe : Max Mikorey
(also created role of Arindal in Die Feen)
- 4 Knappe : Adolf von Hübbenet
- Alt-Solo : Sophie Dompierre
- Blumenmädchen : Pauline Horson
- Blumenmädchen : Johanna Meta
- Blumenmädchen : Carrie Pringle
- Blumenmädchen : Johanna André
- Blumenmädchen : Hermine Galfy
(also created role of 1st Squire)
- Blumenmädchen : Luise Belce
Under protection of copyright, staged performances of Parsifal were
forbidden to take place anywhere other than the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
Concert performances were first given in:
- United Kingdom: 10 Nov 1884, London (Albert Hall)
- United States: 3 Mar 1886, New York
- Netherlands: 5 Dec 1896, Amsterdam
Staged performances in countries where the copyright protection was
unenforceable first took place in:
- United States: 24 Dec 1903, New York (Met)
- Canada: Apr 1905, Montreal
- Netherlands: 20 Jun 1905, Amsterdam
- Monaco: Feb 1913, Monte Carlo [private performance]
- Switzerland: 13 Apr 1913, Zurich
The copyright protection expired on 31 Dec, 1913, at the end of the thirtieth
year after the composer's death. Following expiration of copyright, staged
performances first took place in:
- Spain: 1 Jan 1914, Barcelona [performance began at midnight; a performance
also took place that day in Madrid]
- Czech Republic: 1 Jan 1914, Prague
- Germany [outside Bayreuth]: 1 Jan 1914, Berlin, Bremen, and Kiel
- Hungary: 1 Jan 1914, Budapest
- Italy: 1 Jan 1914, Bologna and Rome
- Poland: 1 Jan 1914, Wroclaw
- Russia: 3 Jan 1914, St. Petersburg
- France: 4 Jan 1914, Paris
- Belgium: 5 Jan 1914, Brussels
- Austria: 14 Jan 1914, Vienna
- United Kingdom: 2 Feb 1914, London (Covent Garden)
- Denmark: 9 Apr 1915, Copenhagen
- Sweden: 21 Apr 1917, Stockholm
- Portugal: Sep 1921, Lisbon
- Cuba: 1921, Havana
- Croatia: 28 Apr 1922, Zagreb
- Romania: Dec 1932, Bucharest
- Finland: 1 Mar 1933, Helsinki
- Slovenia: 14 Apr 1933, Ljubljana
- Latvia: 14 Mar 1934, Riga
- Yugoslavia: Jun 1938, Belgrade
First performance at:
- Metropolitan Opera: 24 Dec 1903
(184 performances in 57 seasons through 1975-76)
- San Francisco Opera: 27 Oct 1950
(17 performances in 5 seasons through 1997-98,
most recently 8 Nov 1988)
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