The Singing City: Mounting Parsifal at the Stuttgart Opera

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Filmed with rare behind-the-scenes access at Germany's renowned Stuttgart State Opera, this program uses director Calixto Bieito's staging of Wagner's Parsifal to explore the dazzling and complex universe of a major operatic production. The challenges of directing, conducting, rehearsing, and dialect coaching (baritone Gregg Baker, as Amfortas, speaks no German) are all shown in fascinating detail. Viewers also learn about the working lives of craftspeople and stage technicians as they conceive, build, and install a dark cityscape of visually stunning elements-including sets, props, costumes, and the ever-present stage blood that threatens to leak into the orchestra pit. Revealing just how difficult it is to coax a visionary interpretation like Bieito's into concrete and living form, award-winning documentary filmmaker Vadim Jendreyko has crafted his own remarkable story along the way
Major Theatrical Efforts (1:47)
"Parsifal" Rehearsals Begin (2:21)
Musical Technicalities (2:27)
International Opera Collaboration (2:10)
"Parsifal" Engineering Challenges (2:52)
Planning a Murder Onstage (2:04)
Production Deadline Pressure (2:24)
Conveying Theatrical Emotion (1:49)
Progress towards Production (3:08)
Conflicting Artistic Instructions (2:30)
Intensity On Stage (MatureThemes) (1:06)
Building a Stage Design (2:09)
Balancing Creative Vision and Self Respect (3:59)
Conflicting Creative Work Styles (4:34)
"Parsifal" Stage Rehearsal (Nudity) (5:25)
Differences in Artistic Vision (1:55)
First Dress Rehearsal (Nudity) (3:53)
"Parsifal" Technical Oversights (2:29)
"Parsifal" Opening Night (2:11)
Credits: The Singing City: Mounting Parsifal at the Stuttgart Opera (0:37)

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