* July 29 – The annual Bayreuth Festival resumes for the first time since the Second World War, now under the general direction of Wieland Wagner, with an opening concert of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler, followed by productions of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Parsifal, and Die Meistersinger.

Finally it reopened with the performance by the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra under conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler of Beethoven's 9th Symphony on 29 July 1951, followed by the first post-war premiere of Wagner's opera, Parsifal.

On the basis of what they give us we can know how the young Caruso sang, appreciate the distinctive qualities of Parsifal under Karl Muck's baton, or sense the type of ensemble Toscanini created in his years with the New York Philharmonic.

The combination of hushed reverence, chromatic harmonies and sexualized imagery in Richard Wagner's late opera Parsifal gave new significance to the grail theme, for the first time associating the grail – now periodically producing blood – directly with female fertility.

At the first performances of Parsifal problems with the moving scenery during the transition from Scene one to Scene two in Act 1 meant that Wagner's existing orchestral interlude finished before Parsifal and Gurnemanz arrived at the Hall of the Grail.

In his opera Parsifal, Richard Wagner identifies the Holy Spear with two items that appear in Wolfram von Eschenbach's medieval poem Parzival, a bleeding spear in the Castle of the Grail and the spear that has wounded the Fisher King.

His friend and patron Robert de Montesquiou sent him to Bayreuth with a recommendation to Cosima Wagner, which led to a great enthusiasm for Parsifal.

Performances of Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre with innovative stage sets by Wieland Wagner were enthusiastically received.

Another was the talented conductor Hermann Levi, who was personally chosen by Richard Wagner to conduct the debut of Parsifal in 1882 with the assistance of the young Engelbert Humperdinck.

Cosima Wagner preserved the productions of Parsifal and Der Ring des Nibelungen just as they had been in Wagner's day, defending any proposed changes with appeals to her son Siegfried: " Was this not how Papa did it in 1876?

However, an April 2007 announcement stated that Haitink would return to the Royal Opera in December 2007, with the same Zurich production of Parsifal, and he fulfilled this engagement.

On the first of these journeys, Chausson went with d ' Indy for the premiere of Wagner's Parsifal, and on the second trip he went with his new spouse Jeanne Escudier ( 1862-1936 ), with whom he was to have five children.

* Wagner, Parsifal, with Hans Knappertsbusch ( live at Bayreuth, 1956, CD manufactured by Arkadia )

* Wagner, Parsifal, in studio with Georg Solti

He made his Proms debut in 1997, in a performance of the Schubert Mass No. 5 in A flat major, D 678, following this with Nielsen's Springtime on Funen in 1999, the Bach St John Passion and Parsifal in 2000, Handel's Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 in 2001, Les Troyens à Carthage in 2003, Les noces in 2004, the Missa solemnis in 2005, Delius A Song of the High Hills in 2009 and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor ' Choral ' in 2011.

On March 31, 1933 he performed the role of Gurnemanz in a broadcast of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal with Rose Bampton, conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

After all the adaptations were made and the construction was completed, the dome successfully opened on January 7, 1922, with a production of Parsifal.

He has also created an opera ( Orpheus and Eurydike, 1992 ) and a site-specific installation of Wagner's Parsifal, several documentary films and dance videos, and produced public art projects with artists or cultural workers in Houston, Chicago, Havana, Ljubljana, Eisenhüttenstadt, Dresden, and Göttelborn.

Her pre-war recordings, which show her voice in its freshest brilliance and clarity, include studio recordings of Wagner arias, Beethoven arias, and Grieg songs, as well as duets from Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Tristan und Isolde with Lauritz Melchior.

In addition, he stated a goal of producing all ten of the major Wagner works in Seattle and, beginning with Tannhäuser, Jenkins ' goal was achieved over the following nineteen years with an August 2003 production of Parsifal.

Betz created Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger and undertook Wotan in the first Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle at Bayreuth, while Reichmann created Amfortas in Parsifal, also at Bayreuth.

* Parsifal ( 1981 ) Director: Wolfgang Wagner, Conductor: Horst Stein, Soloists: Siegfried Jerusalem, Eva Randová, Bernd Weikl, Hans Sotin, Matti Salminen, Label: Deutsche Grammophon / Unitel

* Parsifal ( 1999 ) Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli, Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Staged by: Wolfgang Wagner, Soloists: Poul Elming, Linda Watson, Hans Sotin, Falk Struckmann, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Unitel

* Parsifal ( 1951 ): Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch.

* Parsifal ( 1962 ): Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch.

His magnificent portrayal of Gurnemanz in Parsifal was preserved on record in Hans Knappertsbusch's second live recording at Bayreuth.

His recordings include Die Meistersinger ( with Claire Watson, 1963 ), Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1963 ), Siegfried ( conducted by Herbert von Karajan, 1968 – 69 ), Ariadne auf Naxos ( conducted by Karl Böhm, 1969 ) and, from Bayreuth, Parsifal ( with Irene Dalis as Kundry, led by Hans Knappertsbusch, 1962 ) and Lohengrin ( with Anja Silja and Astrid Varnay, 1962 ).

The tenor's other recordings include: Wagner's Die Walküre ( with Birgit Nilsson and Hans Hotter, conducted by Sir Georg Solti, 1965 ); Puccini's Tosca ( excerpts in German, opposite Anja Silja, conducted by Lorin Maazel, 1966 ); Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1968 ); Fidelio ( 1969 ); Wagner's Lohengrin ( 1971 ); Puccini's Madama Butterfly ( with Maria Chiara, 1972 ); Saint-Saëns ' Samson and Delilah ( 1973 ); Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1977 ); Hindemith's Mathis der Maler ( with Fischer-Dieskau and William Cochran, 1979 ); Franz Schmidt's Notre Dame ( 1988 ); and, from the Bayreuth Festival, Die Walküre ( with Nilsson and Theo Adam, 1967 ) and Parsifal ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones, led by Pierre Boulez, 1970 ).

* Solveig Olsen Hans Jürgen Syberberg and his Film of Wagner's Parsifal, University Press of America, 2006.

He eventually added Amfortas in Parsifal, Hans Sachs and Veit Pogner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and the title role in The Flying Dutchman to his Bayreuth performance credits.

* With Hans Knappertsbusch: Parsifal ( 1962, as Flower Girl )

Boulez's rejection of the tradition of Pelléas conducting caused controversy among critics who accused him of " Wagnerising " Debussy, to which Boulez responded that the work was indeed heavily influenced by Wagner's Parsifal.

Operatic ( Record of the Year ) -- Wagner, Parsifal, Herbert von Karajan conducting Deutsche Opera and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra ( Deutsche Grammophon )

Coertse made her debut in January 1955 as the First Flower girl in Wagner's Parsifal at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Karl Böhm conducting.

* Mimi Coertse makes her debut as the First Flower girl in Parsifal at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples with Karl Böhm conducting.

He has made numerous recordings, both in the classical and in the operetta repertoire, including Tannhäuser ( conducted by Sir Georg Solti, 1970 ), Die Meistersinger ( with Karajan, 1970 ), Parsifal ( Solti, 1971 – 72 ), Die tote Stadt ( with Carol Neblett, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf, 1975 ), The Bartered Bride ( opposite Teresa Stratas and Janet Perry, 1975 ), Der fliegende Holländer ( Solti, 1976 ), Ariadne auf Naxos ( Solti, 1977 ), Fidelio ( under Leonard Bernstein, 1978 ), Der Freischütz ( 1979 ), Lohengrin ( with Dunja Vejzovic as Ortrud, led by Karajan, 1975 – 81 ), Siegfried ( 1982 ), Tristan und Isolde ( with Carlos Kleiber conducting, 1980 – 82 ), Götterdämmerung ( 1983 ) and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1987 ).

Mezzos also sometimes play dramatic soprano roles such as Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth, and Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal.

She also is seen as a prominent figure in late nineteenth and twentieth century opera, appearing in Richard Wagner's Parsifal ( Kundry ), George Bizet's " Carmen ", Camille Saint-Saëns ' " Samson et Delilah " and Alban Berg's " Lulu " ( based on the plays " Erdgeist " and " Die Büchse der Pandora " by Frank Wedekind ).

The Trautonium was also used in the Dresden première of Richard Strauss's Japanese Festival Music in 1942 for emulating the gongs-and bells-parts and in the 1950s in Bayreuth for the Monsalvat bells in Wagner's Parsifal.

With Herbert von Karajan, he also recorded Fidelio ( opposite Jon Vickers, 1970 ), Le nozze di Figaro ( 1978 ), Pelléas et Mélisande ( 1978 ), Parsifal ( with Peter Hofmann, 1979 – 1980 ), Die Zauberflöte ( as Sarastro, 1980 ), and Der fliegende Holländer ( to Dunja Vejzovic's Senta, 1981 – 1983 ), as well as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ( with Janet Perry, 1983 ).

He was also patron to the composer Richard Wagner and encouraged him to create the opera Parsifal based on the romance.

( The theme was also used as the " Grail " leitmotif by Richard Wagner in his 1882 opera Parsifal.

" The New York Times, which also detected the influence of Parsifal, and, in the finale, of Verdi's Aida, called the symphony " a work of such importance that conductors will not lightly let it drop.

Syberberg is also noted for an acclaimed visual interpretation of the Wagner opera Parsifal in 1982.

He has also directed Parsifal in Darmstadt in 1986 and Tiefland by Eugen d ' Albert in Ulm in 1991.