Index of Articles

The primary articles of this web site, together with selected external links, are listed below. If you want to read more about any topic, then try clicking on the "right-hand" icon at the top of any page. This icon will usually take you to an article that explores some aspect of the topic in detail; if none is available, it will take you to the Contents page. There is also navigation at the bottom of each web page.

Introductory Material

icon An Introduction to Parsifal

icon Plot Summary of Parsifal

iconA Cautionary Tale
(Neil Kurtzman)


Articles - Sources and Contexts

icon Wagner's Sources

icon Parzival and Parsifal

icon Peredur, an Arthurian tale

icon Wolzogen on Parsifal

icon The Wounding and Healing Holy Spear

icon Parsifal and Greek Myth

icon Magic Flowers

icon The Origins of Kundry

icon Swans and Geese: Wagner's Wildfowl

icon Wagner, Buddhism and Parsifal

icon Jesus - Buddha - Parsifal

icon Suneson on Indian Influences in Parsifal


Articles - Interpretation

icon Parsifal and Race

icon Wieland Wagner's Parsifal Cross

icon Parsifal's Progress

icon Sleeping and Waking

icon Good Friday

icon Erlösung dem Erlöser

icon Parsifal and Christianity


Articles - Performance

icon Parsifal on Stage

icon Adolphe Appia on Parsifal and the Ring

icon Transformation Music

icon The Bells of Monsalvat

icon Parsifal at Covent Garden

icon Bernard Levin on Parsifal

icon Parsifal in Wolfgang Wagner's staging at Bayreuth

 icon Syberberg's Parsifal Film

icon Parsifal at Baireuth (M.G. van Rensselaer)

icon Wagner's Parsifal (C.D. Warner)
from P. Swinkels' Wagner Library
The dove descends as Grail and Spear are restored and reunited
(Höchsten Heiles Wunder!)




Articles - Creation

icon Chronology

icon The Genesis of Parsifal

icon Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonk

icon Wagner's Muse



References and Sources

icon The Prose Draft of Parsifal

icon PARSIFAL - A New English Translation with Commentary

icon Further Reading

icon A Parsifal Discography



Articles - the Music

icon An Introduction to the Music of Parsifal

icon The Mystic Chord

icon Leitmotif Guide (800x600) (frames)

icon Leitmotif Guide (1024x768) (frames)

icon Prelude to Act 1

icon Prelude to Act 2

icon Prelude to Act 3

icon Meyerbeer's Robert and Wagner's Parsifal



Articles - Reactions

icon Nietzsche on Parsifal

icon G.B. Shaw on Parsifal

icon A Poem by Paul Verlaine

icon Parsifal and the Nazis

icon Lévi-Strauss on Parsifal

icon Thomas Mann on Parsifal
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