Wagner - Parsifal - Flower Maidens Scene

The Flower Maidens scene from Wagner's Parsifal. Parsifal - Jess Thomas, Flower Maidens - Gundula Janowitz, Anja Silja, Else-Margrete Gardelli, Dorothea Siebert, Rita Bartos, Sona Cervena. Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch, 1962.

[@petatap]

simply great: Janowitz and Silja as Flower-Maidens! Knappertbusch's very slow tempi ... Wieland Wagner's staging - you can understand every word (Jess Thomas perhaps not ...)

[@MarkyMarc78]

The first Parsifal recording I purchased in 1998 and I still love it - although I know it's not a "non plus ultra" ;-)