The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring cycle. Kurt Moll is a wonderful Gurnemanz, but compared to his studio recording under Karajan a decade earlier it has lost some of its original velvety body and luster. As Parsifal, Jerusalem is starting to show some wear and tear on his voice at the Met in 1992 as opposed to his prime form at Bayreuth in 1981, but is still quite good; only Placido Domingo could compete with him in the role at that time.
Brian Large
Director
Richard Wagner
Original Music Composer
Richard Wagner
Writer
Otto Schenk
Director
Daniel Anker
Producer
Suzanne Gooch
Producer
Bernd Weikl
Amfortas
Siegfried Jerusalem
Parsifal
Waltraud Meier
Kundry
Kurt Moll
Gurnemanz
Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Titurel
Franz Mazura
Klingsor
Heidi Grant Murphy
Knappe erste
Jane Bunnell
Knappe zweite
John Horton Murray
Knappe dritte
Bernard Fitch
Knappe vierte
Paul Groves
Ritter erste
Jeffrey Wells
Ritter zweite
