Parsifal

Come take the journey into the unknown dangerous foreign
Past the fore posts of your culture
Come be part of the opera crusade
Don’t be afraid you’ve got Wagner and good taste on your side
Knight of Good Taste!

Hereby Wagner’s last great opus, a testament of the golden age of western culture, a desperate denial of cultural decline and a cartoonish super-hero epic with music added, performed where the bourgeoisie, the cultural elite, those in power and thes well off never venture: a white spot on the map, a parallel society, a wound in the side og your world.

Parsifal is a travelling opera. A performance that brings opera audiences from Copenhagen Central Station to the suburb of Brøndby Strand. Parsifal is a meeting between two clashing ghettos: the secluded, mocked social housing area and the lofty, elitist opera
people.

In the surroundings and guts of this iconic concrete project Parsifal staged a meeting between two different enclosures: the remote, ridiculed social housing project and the elitist opera audience. With this performance we humbly tried to fix the gaps in our society; and we tried to face our infected cultural heritage.

Parsifal was performed 2 – 16 April 2011 from Copenhagen Central Station, track 11 & 12.