SUNDAY 17 AUGUST 2025

HANS-JÜRGEN SYBERBERG’S PARSIFAL

12.00pm:
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s Parsifal

Venue:
The Goethe Institut, Event Hall (upstairs), 
90 Ocean Street (cnr Jersey Road), Woollahra

Tickets:
$25 members, $35 non-members, $10 full-time students 

ABOUT THE FILM

The film of Parsifal was directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1982.

Syberberg’s monumental and celebrated film about Wagner’s music-drama Parsifal was released to coincide with the centenary of Wagner’s death. ( Shown out of competition at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival) Syberberg made his film entirely in a studio, like his previous films Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King and Hitler: A Film from Germany. The resources of a film studio allowed Syberberg to film the opera against a constantly shifting screen of references and allusions shown by front- projection, thus imprinting his own vision of Parsifal and Richard Wagner in a manner of which a stage-director could only dream, whilst also having the other advantage of film, that of showing in close-up the emotion of the opera in the faces of his actors and actresses.

By Derrick Everett
Full review at https://www.monsalvat.no/syberberg-parsifal.htm

Armin Jordan – Amfortas / Music Conductor
Robert Lloyd – Gurnemanz;
Martin Sperr – Titurel
Michael Kutter – Parsifal 1
Edith Clever – Kundry
Reiner Goldberg – Parsifal (voice)
Aage Haugland – Klingsor
Karin Krick – Parsifal 2
Yvonne Minton – Kundry (voice)
Wolfgang Schöevne – Amfortas (voice)