Parsifal – review

Millennium Centre, CardiffAppropriately enough, the Mariinsky theatre's brief visit to Britain this week is dominated by an opera that ends on Good Friday. Wagner's Parsifal has been a central part of the St Petersburg company's repertoire ever since Valery Gergiev conducted the work's first public performance in Russia in 1997, and the recording they released two years ago is one of the finest recent versions on disc.That performance featured an international cast; on the current tour the singe...

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