the Met as
Amfortas in Verdi's Aida and also stepped in for Sam
Returning from 2013, along with Pape, were its two best performances: Peter Mattei's surely ideal
Amfortas and Evgeny Nikitin's chilling Klingsor.
Orchestral sweep and detail were sensitively managed by the conductor, the CBSO Chorus made telling contributions exploiting the physical and acoustic resources of Symphony Hall itself, and in a well-chosen cast James Rutherford as the tortured
Amfortas and Mihoko Fujimura as the self-loathing Kundry were outstanding.
This last claim may seem a little overstated; if so, it probably belongs alongside Barry Emslie's curious notion that the relationship between Parsifal and
Amfortas is "more overly loving and lofty" than any other in the drama (p.
Following Ola's death, Chaim rescues his dead friends from the mass grave and under the guidance of the rabbi, now a crow, they wander until the dead are reunited at the eerie Hotel
Amfortas and all but Chaim disappear into the bakers' ovens, symbolic of the gas chambers.
En la literatura, la poesia y el cine existen algunas referencias a este fenomeno, como se ve en la opera Parsifal, del compositor aleman Richard Wagner (1813-1883), basada en el poema epico medieval del mismo nombre, cuyo personaje, Klingsor, un caballero de la Orden del rey
Amfortas, no puede controlar su libido, asi llega a castrarse para poder acceder a la hermandad de caballeros protectores del Santo Grial (3,4).
There is no Parsifal, no holy fool, to ask our
Amfortas, What ails you?
Amfortas, which was the very serious European businessman with a scientific background that was come to New Jersey to fix a company which had a pipeline going the wrong wav that he found out that in the company was a stubborn and rebellious worker (and others) who did not hearken to the rules, nor the SOPs, nor what is right in the eyes of the FDA.