Bratislavská „krádež“ svätého Grálu. Rekonštrukcia inscenácie Wagnerovho Parsifala v Slovenskom národnom divadle z roku 1935
BRATISLAVA „ROBBERY“ OF THE HOLY GRAIL. RECONSTRUCTION OF WAGNER‘S PARSIFAL PRODUCTION AT THE OPERA OF SLOVAK NATIONAL THEATRE (1935)

Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the dramaturgy of the late-romantic Richard Wagner’s masterpiece in the Opera of Slovak National Theatre during the Karel Nedbal era. In addition to The Rine Gold (1928) and Tristan and Isolde (1934), the author focuses primarily on the Parsifal staging analysis – Richard Wagner‘s last stage production, composed for the Bayreuth Festival Theatre. The text reflects inadequate archive materials that document this unique and – as until today – unprecedented staging achievement within the SNT. The author‘s ambition is to reconstruct the dramaturgical intent of conductor Karel Nedbal and director Bohuš Vilím in Ľudovít Hradský‘s scenography, which exhibits the clear aesthetic influences of the reformers of Wagner’s stage poetics of Adolphe Appia and Alfred Roller. Although expressionist scenography was not an aesthetic sensation in the European production context of 1935, but in the context of the young ensemble of the SNT, it was proof of its artistic ambition and determination. The author considers the possible obstacles and complexities of the staging process, such as the complex conditions of musical preparation, lack of technical equipment for the stage and so on. This text is conceived as an attempt of stage historiography, recognizing the pitfalls of the subjectivity of artistic criticism characteristic of this period.

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