RICHARD - WAGNER PARSIFAL / POUL ELMING, LINDA WATSON, FALK STRUCKMANN, HANS SOTIN / BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELE / GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI / Staged by Wolfgang Wagner / Unitel Classica / major / DVD Video

UPC 814337010591

Playtime is 268 Minutes 

First time on DVD
"Giuseppe Sinopoli coaxed an outstanding performance from the Festival Orchestra and Chorus... investing the music with a meditatively flowing quality rather than the usual bombast."
- Das Opernglas

A timelessly classical Parsifal from the 1998 Bayreuth Festival in a mystically poetic staging that exerts an unbroken fascination not least as a result of its expressive lighting effects. Under the direction of the great Wagner conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli, the four main roles are taken by Paul Elming, Linda Watson, Falk Struckmann and Hans Sotin one of the strongest line-ups in Bayreuth's more recent history. "Giuseppe Sinopoli coaxed an outstanding performance from the Festival Orchestra and Chorus, throwing light on the elaborate score from an agreeable distance and investing the music with a meditatively flowing quality rather than the usual bombast." (Das Opernglas)

Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele

GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI

Stage Director & Set Design: WOLFGANG WAGNER

Video Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld

• PICTURE FORMAT: NTSC 16:9, WIDESCREEN
• SOUND FORMATS: PCM STEREO, DTS 5.1
• SUBTITLES: GERMAN (ORIGINAL LANGUAGE) ENGLISH FRENCH SPANISH
• REGION CODE 0 (WORLDWIDE)
• TOTAL RUNNING TIME 268 MINS