Parsifal. Wagner's final music drama in Klaus Michael Gruber 's new production for the Royal Opera conducted by Simon Rattle. Extinction threatens the knights who guard the Holy Grail. Only a pure fool can bring salvation, but no one knows who he is orwhere he can be found, until a passer-by shoots one of the knights' sacred swans. He's a young man called
Parsifal. Presented by Donald Macleod in conversation with Simon Rattle.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Simon Rattle
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Christopher Cook is joined by the ecclesiologist Julian Litten as he admires the silver Edward VII memorial altar at
Sandringham. And together they explore some earlier work by its creator, Carl Krall of the silversmiths, Barkentin and Krall.
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