Parsifal

In the organizer's words:

In the story of the "pure fool," Philipp Stölzl places questions about the fanaticism of hermetic religious communities at the center of his interpretation: an anti-Enlightenment worldview, belief in miracles, the violent exclusion of outsiders are all themes that he shapes in tableaux vivants as a time travel through two millennia... Conductor: Sir Donald Runnicles; Director: Philipp Stölzl; With Jordan Shanahan, Günther Groissböck, Klaus Florian Vogt, Joachim Goltz, Irene Roberts and others.
Since its founding in November 1912, the Deutsche Oper Berlin has been considered one of the most important international venues for Richard Wagner's music theater. As early as 1914, after the expiration of the Bayreuth protection period for Wagner's PARSIFAL, the house on Bismarckstrasse was one of the first German theaters to put this work on the program. For the 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Oper in October 2012, the celebrations were crowned with a new production of PARSIFAL. General Music Director Donald Runnicles collaborated with director Philipp Stölzl for the first time.

In a free poetic treatment of motifs from a wide variety of sagas, the Christian and Buddhist religions, and Schopenhauer's world of ideas, Richard Wagner created his own new myth with his PARSIFAL. The desire for redemption accompanied Wagner himself for decades, and in PARSIFAL he confronted the question of private as well as social salvation on an artistic level with particular intensity. A strong leader is longed for, society is to be renewed. But even the installation of Parsifal's new ruler is only another stage in the repetitive, ossified ritual of power. Philipp Stölzl places questions about the aggression potential and fanaticism of hermetic religious communities at the center of his examination of Wagner's Bühnenweihfestspiel. An anti-Enlightenment worldview, belief in miracles, and an even violent demarcation of outsider figures such as Kundry are themes that find expression in opulent tableaux on a journey through time and millennia.

Philipp Stölzl began his career in 1988 at the Munich Kammerspiele as stage and costume assistant to Jürgen Rose and Ezio Toffolutti, among others. As a freelance stage and costume designer, he worked with directors such as Armin Petras and Thomas Langhoff. From 1997 he shot music videos for the Austrian production company doro, where he had his breakthrough with Rammstein's "Du riechst so gut". Videos for Westernhagen, Die Ärzte, Die toten Hosen, Madonna, Mick Jagger, Luciano Pavarotti followed. At the same time he realized commercials for Sony, BMW, Nokia and Rolex. In 2001 Stölzl directed his first feature film "Baby, a Tragicomedy". In the fall of 2008, his film "Nordwand" was released. Philipp Stölzl made his debut in Meiningen in 2005 with a production of Weber's FREISCHÜTZ and in the following years caused a sensation as an opera director at the Ruhrtriennale and the Salzburg Festival, at the Theater Basel, the Stuttgart State Opera and the Berlin State Opera. After DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER at the Theater Basel and RIENZI at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stölzl continued his exploration of Richard Wagner's music theater with PARSIFAL. This content has been machine translated.