Professor Hackett sent this brief description of the talk:  It is impossible to separate Parsifal’s psychological journey from his theatrical and musical one. Specifically, transformation—musically, dramatically, psychologically, spiritually, geographically—is at the core of Wagner’s great mystical work.The talk will analyze the complex interconnections amongst various elements of the music and stage action that make this opera one of the greatest works of the 19th century and beyond. It is the synthesis of these dramatic elements that is characteristic of the Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk. 

 

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