New Production of Parsifal for Chiswick

Elemental Opera perform Wagner's opera in St Michael and All Angels

Chiswick singer Cecilia Bailey is part of the cast of the Wagner opera Parsifal, playing for three dates, October 22, 27 and 29 at St Michael & All Angels Church, Bath Road.

Cecilia, who hopes to have a career in opera, plays the role of Kundry in this five-hour long production

The cast includes several Royal Northern College of Music Alumni, and they all live and work in London bar Adam Leftwich who lives in the Czech Republic.

The production is by Elemental Opera, a Manchester-based company which has recently been formed. This Chiswick production is the first of the new company. Originally conceived as a collective, the company has had much success with its productions of The Rape of Lucretia, King Roger, and Peter Grimes, Elemental Opera has been featured in the Lost &Found Festival (including a live link to the BBC’s outside Big Screen) and in the Nottingham Philharmonic’s 40th anniversary season. 

The production is directed by Mark Burns with Musical Director Michael Thrift, it is sung in English to a new translation.

Tickets are £20, with £15 concessions. Performances start at 5 pm and last five hours with two intervals.

Parsifal (WWV 111) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, a 13th-century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for the Holy Grail (12th century).

October 22, 2016