Music and libretto by Richard Wagner, based on the medieval epic poem Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach.
Parsifal arrives after years of wandering in the desert to save the Temple of the Grail.
Parsifal, the innocent and compassionate “guileless fool,” embodies the spirit of redemption. He embodies the trauma and despair that followed the First World War, when hopes for a new leader ended in disaster.