Parsifal

Parsifal with a libretto and score by Richard Wagner was billed as a sacred drama at the Garnier Palace for the first time on 4 January 1914. Wagner’s work had had its world premiere at the Bayreuth theatre on 26 July 1882. It had already been produced at the Metropolitan Opera (1903), the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (1914), and at Covent Garden (1914) before it was mounted at Paris in the French version of Alfred Ernst. In Paris, the sets were designed by Simas (a. 1, 3) and Rochette (a. 2)…