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DESCRIPTION:Oct 1-17\, 2026\nJakub Hrůša\, the Royal Opera’s music dire
 ctor\, joins with the director Evgeny Titov in his company debut for a “
 bold\, dreamlike\, and disturbing” new production of Richard Wagner’s 
 churchy but highly narcotic valedictory from the stage and the world. Temp
 eramentally and in appearance\, the French tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac mi
 ght have been born to enact the eponymous Holy Fool\, whose trajectory lea
 ds from cluelessness to compassion so great as to redeem the world. The in
 cisive British bass Brindley Sherratt sings Gurnemanz\, veteran knight of 
 the Holy Grail who knows where all the skeletons are buried and narrates t
 he back story in exhaustive detail. In the baritone part of Amfortas\, the
  agonized king of the Grail’s collapsing confraternity\, there’s the G
 erman lieder specialist Christian Gerhaher\, prone to affectation. The Rus
 sian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova\, whose undimmed artistry compensate
 s for paling vocal resources\, assays Kundry\, the time-traveler who is pa
 rt Lilith\, part Mary Magdalene.
LOCATION:Royal Ballet and Opera\, Main Stage\, Bow St\, London WC2E 9DD\, U
 nited Kingdom
SUMMARY:Parsifal\, by Richard Wagner
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