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Stéphane Ratti: "Parsifal at the Paris Opera, a misinterpretation"

2022-06-17T18:58:45.149Z


TRIBUNE - University professor and historian, the author sharply criticizes Richard Jones' staging of Wagner's Persifal, which has just been staged at the Paris Opera.


How to explain the mysterious but real disappointment that invaded part of the public, sometimes inclined to withhold their applause, I can testify to it, sometimes to leave the room prematurely during the performances of

Parsifal

at the Paris Opera in June?

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On reflection, the causes are multiple.

Let's move on to the musical direction of Simone Young, whose repetitive and inelegant beat discourages us from looking at her during the performance and further fuels our eternal regrets at the departure of Philippe Jordan (who looks more and more physically like Karajan), the best conductor with which Paris has been honored for a long time, he who has raised the level of an orchestra that has finally become worthy of a capital, and who is today the heyday of the Vienna Staatsoper.

To tell the truth, each bar of the

Ring

or of

Parsifal

conducted by Jordan gave birth to a new Wagner, while our uninspired Maestra noisily conducts a score from which she expurgated all tension...

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Source: lefigaro

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