1:54 Act I
1:39:22 Act II
2:44:26 Act III

My father died last week, and he loved this opera and Wagner in general. How a first-born son who should have been a farmer in Iowa decides he's going to leave home, marry a Polish woman he met in Paris, become a French professor and an opera fanatic is beyond me, but he did. He was soooo different from the other dads in Oklahoma, but now I appreciate him enormously. Thank god he spent one week alone in NYC at the Met attending a Wagner marathon. It was the only time he spent money on himself. His mother sat on millions in farmland and didn't cash out, leaving it for six kids. My parents died within one year of each other and never got to spend that inheritance on anything "fun." So I am going to live the fudge out of my life in their honor. I'm not worthy of it, but life isn't fair. Who knows, I may not have long either. One never knows. I love you, Daddy (and Mommy, who attended all the operas except for the 6 hour ones...) Be good to your "annoying," "boring," and "weird" parents who are frugal and responsible.

This is an absolutely magical production.

How a human being could create music like this will always remain a miracle for me !
It takes you like in a rush , opening a completely new world in your mind...

Parsifal without silly postmodern affectations, with English subs on YouTube, now that's a rarity xD

Keep coming back here, so I'm just gonna make this list.
My favorite moments:
1:56 Prelude
13:32 The squire's prayer
21:14 Amfortas' dream
26:13 Amofrtas' gratitude
37:02 Gurnemanz talks about the legend of Titurel
48:01 Gurnemanz scolds Parsifal and talks about the swan
59:43 Gurnemanz invites Parsifal to the Grail rite*
1:01:30 Verwandlungsmusik (Transformation music)*
1:05:58 The entrance of the knights*
1:12:29 Amofrtas cries out for forgiveness
1:30:20 Communion*
1:58:38 Flower maidens try to seduce Parsifal
2:03:41 Kundry reminds Parsifal of his name
2:41:28 Parsifal takes the holy spear from Klingsor
2:44:26 Act III Prelude
2:49:43 Gurnemanz discovers and wakes Kundry*
2:54:40 Love this short part in the orchestra
3:01:12 + 3:05:40  Gurnemanz recognizes the holy spear
3:17:50 Good Friday Spell*
3:19:32 Parsifal baptizes Kundry
3:26:06 Don't have words, this is too beautiful...*
3:33:33 Titurel's funeral march*
3:44:08 Parsifal heals Amfortas with the spear
3:47:36 Finale*

Why tell me,  in an old man like me sitting with tears rolling down his cheeks. Words fail me.

Happy Birthday to  our admirable  dear Siegfried Jerusalem... 17.04.2020

OMG. I am 58 how have I never come across this before??? It is totally amazing

3:50:47 - that chord always hits me.   It's like looking into the face of God.....

03:47:36 The finale ... the music, the choir, it just blows me away each time I hear it. Supreme bliss!

Nietszche hated this magnum opus. Says a lot about Nietszche.

I love Mozart, Handel, Bach, Beethoven..But seriously let’s be honest there has never been a composer that matches Wagner. It’s about more than the music, his vision for storytelling, theme and symbolism laid the groundwork for cinema which was the art-form of the 20th Century. As that art-form now lies decaying and rotten, it is time to look back at its predecessor in opera, and for me personally nothings has the gravitas of Wagner’s style and themes.

The Greatest Opera! For it is so much more!

3:21:00 what a peaceful moment of music. Suddenly, the doors of heaven are opening.

This is the best, most mystical and profoundly touching music human ear can hear. I my life I had the honor of seeing Parsifal live and despite the fact that staging was mediocre at best, it was an experience that will be forever imprinted in me. No words can describe the final angelic voice coming from the top of opera house.

Listening Parsifal is like to come in wonderful world of dreams and fairy tails. So beautiful. It's remember childhood memories.

Yes, this music connects you directly with the wellhead of the terror of art.  Once you have heard this music your life can never be the same as before.  How did Wagner know his music would be the conduit to so many people of love  and redemption.  The story goes on and on.  The wounded person who encounters their saviour when they least expect it. The innocent messenger who unknowingly is bringing succour and healing at the last possible moment to a lifetime of agony and pain.  I have never met my Amfortas and I accept that I never will.  But he remains the most meaningful person in my life.  He has given me trust, space and appreciation.  For that I am eternally grateful. Thank you Richard Wagner for allowing me to interpret the meaning of what has been happening to me over the last four months.

Wagner was in touch with a higher power that only he knew. There’s nothing in music that can compare to the humanity that this work touches upon. I’m sorry the Met is skipping it this year again.

I'm new to Parsifal, but I've come back to this particular production more than a dozen times and listened to it in its entirety. The ever-turning shadings of this music so often bruise the heart but even so, there is pleasure in the heart having been seen, recognized, and transcribed.