Misterium krwi i wody
The mystery of blood and water

Summary/Abstract: Jolanta Łada-Zielke's review of Richard Wagner's Parsifal directed by Uwe Eric Laufenberg (prem.: 25 Jul 2016) begins with a reference to the anxiety linked terrorist attacks in Europe (three of them in Bavaria), accompanying this year's Bayreuth Festival. The author focuses on Laufenberg's interpretation – his deviations from Wagner's opera, the shifting of the place of action from mediaeval Europe to the Middle East and the addition of the subject of refugees. Łada-Zielke claims that in Laufenberg's staging of Wagner “compassion as a form of empathy and ability to adopt the viewpoint of a suffering human being comes to the fore”.

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