Speranza
By courtesy of F. D. V.
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1902 April 7.
Paris, Nouveau-Théâtre (Casino de Paris).
Excerpts in
concert.
French metrical translation: by Judith Gautier and Maurice
Kufferath -- ?]
conductor: Alfred Cortot
Kundry: Félia Litvinne
Parsifal: Léon
Laffitte
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1903 April 12 -- Easter Sunday.
Milano, Teatro all Scala
Concert version of Prelude and
Act III.
Italian metrical translation by Angelo
Zanardini—?
Conductor:
Arturo Toscanini
CAST:
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Parsifal ....
Giuseppe Borgatti --- featuring aria, "Amfortas! La piaga, la piaga!"
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Also: Bice Silvestri (Kundry), Angelo Scandiani (Amfortas), and Giulio Rossi (Gurnemanz).
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1913 January 23
Monte Carlo, Salle Garnier (Opéra), Monaco.
Private
performance.
French metrical translation: by Judith Gautier and Maurice
Kufferath.
conductor:
Léon Jehin
Kundry: Félia Litvinne
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Parsifal: Charles
Rousselière
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Amfortas: André Allard
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1913 June 20
Buenos Aires,
Teatro Coliseo
Italian singing version… —?
conductor: Gino Marinuzzi
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1913
September 30
Rio de Janeiro, Teatro Municipal
Italian singing version…
—?
c. Gino Marinuzzi
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1913 December 31
Barcelona, Gran Teatro del
Liceu
Italian singing version… —?
Onto the 1914 performance boom.
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German-language productions are acknowledged but not given in detail.
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There are two different
French metrival translations by
(a)
Gautier/Kufferath
(b) Alfred Ernst
There are two different Italian singing
versions:
(a) Angelo Zanardini
(b) Giovanni Pozza.
Angelo Zanardini's translation was published by
Ricordi, both in libretto and piano/vocal format,
sometime in the 1880s (he
passed away in 1893).
Pozza's came a little later. The only «date» we could
find for it was «primi del '900». He died in 1914.
Pozza's version was a joint publication by Ricordi and
rival publishing house Sonzogno.
It's still available in the Ricordi full
score edition.
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1914 JANUARY 01 (New Year's Day) — Simultaneous premieres:
Bologna,
Teatro Comunale.
Italian singing version by Angelo Zanardini
Conductor: Rodolfo
Ferrari
CAST:
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Parsifal ...... tenor ..... Giuseppe
Borgatti
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Also: Elena Rakowska-Serafin (Kundry), Alfredo Gandolfi (Amfortas), Luigi Rossi-Morelli (Klingsor), Giulio Cirino (Gurnemanz) and Medardo Medosi (Titurel).
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Roma, Teatro Costanzi
Italian singing version by Angelo
Zanardini—?
conductor Edoardo Vitale
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Parsifal ....... tenor ----
Guido Vaccari, a renowned Wagnerian tenor.
Alternate dates: Emilio Perea
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Also: Lina Pasini-Vitale (Kundry), Giuseppe De Luca (Amfortas), Edoardo Faticanti/Ciro Patino (Klingsor), Angelo Masini Pieralli (Gurnemanz), and Giuseppe Tisci Rubini (Titurel).
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Prague, Neues Deutsches Landesttheater
in
German
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Prague, Národní Divadlo (National Theatre)
In Czech
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1914 Jan 1.
The Met gave its 72nd
performance of Parsifal.
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1914 JANUARY 04.
Simultaneous
premieres:
Paris, Opéra (Garnier)
French singing version by Alfred
Ernst.
Conductor: André Messager
CAST:
Kundry: Lucienne Bréval
Parsifal: Paul
Franz
Amfortas: Louis Lestelly
Klingsor: Marcel Journet
Gurnemanz:
Jean-François «Francisque» Delmas
Titurel: André Gresse
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1914 Jan 04
Milano, La
Scala
Italian singing version by Angelo Zanardini—?
Conductor: Tullio
Serafin
CAST:
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Parsifal ..... "Edoardo di Giovanni" (future Met general director Edward
Johnson).
Later performances, Giuseppe Borgatti, and then Johnson
again.
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Also: Lucie Weidt-Margot Kaftal (Kundry), Carlo Galeffi/Angelo Scandiani-Alfredo Gandolfi (Amfortas), Luigi Nicoletti Korman (Klingsor), Nazzareno de Angelis-Umberto Nicoletti (Gurnemanz), and Berardo Berardi (Titurel).
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1914 JANUARY 05
Bruxelles, La Monnaie
French metrical
version by Judith Gautier and Maurice Kufferath
c. Otto Lohse
CAST:
Kundry:
Lucyle Panis [Lucile de Panis]
Parsifal: Heinrich Hensel [Henri
Hensel]
---- Also with
Amfortas: Édouard Roux «Rouard»
Klingsor: Auguste
Bouilliez
Gurnemanz: Étienne Billot
Titurel: J. Grommen
Some sources
mistakenly give the date as the 2nd—which was the dress
rehearsal date—or
the 4th.
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1914 JANUARY 14
Wien,
Opernhaus am Ring
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1914
JANUARY 20
Monte Carlo, Salle Garnier (Opéra)
French singing version by
Judith Gautier and Maurice Kufferath
c. Léon Jehin
CAST:
Kundry: Félia
Litvinne
Parsifal: Charles Rousselière
Amfortas: Jean
Bourbon
Gurnemanz: Marcel Journet
Sources also list Alfred Maguenat as
part of the cast of this production.
1914 JANUARY 23
Hamburg,
National Stadttheater (Opernhaus)
1914 FEBRUARY 02
London, ROH
Covent Garden
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1914 March 8
Torino, Teatro Regio
Italian
metrical version by Angelo Zanardini.
Conductor:
Ettore Panizza
CAST:
Kundry: Elena
Rakowska-Serafin
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Parsifal .... tenor .... Guido Vaccari
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Amfortas: Alfredo
Gandolfi
Klingsor: Enrico Molinari
Gurnemanz: Luigi Nicoletti
Korman
Titurel: Paolo Argentini
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1914 MARCH 24
Dresden,
Königlich-Sächsisches Hoftheater (Sächsische Hofoper-Semperoper)
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1914
April 12, Easter Sunday.
Venezia, La Fenice
Italian metrical translation by
Angelo Zanardini
Conductor: Rodolfo Ferrari
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Parsifal:
Augusto Assandria
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Also with Teresina Burchi (Kundry),
Amfortas: Giuseppe Giardini
Klingsor: Leone
Paci
Gurnemanz: Mansueto Gaudio
Titurel: Giuseppe
Pacchiani
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1914 JUNE 03
Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
[in
German, we are assuming]
c. Felix von Weingartner
Kundry: Margarete
Matzenauer
Parsifal: Johannes Sembach
Amfortas: Murray Davey
Klingsor:
Paul Knüpfer
Gurnemanz: Paul Bender
Titurel: August
Kiess
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Regarding the later years of Parsifal in italiano.
1948 was the
final Italian-language "Parsifal" (in the Pozza version) presented by the Teatro alla Scala
(Ettore Panizza conducting).
The original German was established most emphatically
at the Teatro alla Scala by the 1951 production: Martha Mödl, Hans Beirer, Otto Edelmann, Josef
Greindl, and Hilde Güden as the first Flowermaiden, conducted by Wilhelm
Furtwängler.
The next production, at the Teatro alla Scala, in 1960, was conducted by André Cluytens
and starred Rita Gorr, Sándor Konya, Gustav Neidlinger, Boris Christoff, and
making her Scala debut as the first Flowermaiden, Montserrat
Caballé.
However, "Parsifal: dramma mistico in tre atti" was still being performed in Italian in other theatres
throughout Italy.
1949 witnessed two Italian-language productions
( the Zanardini version, according to what we could find) in Roma
and Venezia.
The Roma production had Serafin conducting a cast which included Maria Callas
as Kundry.
The Venezia production featured, unusually for a production sung in the
vernacular, Anny
Konetzni as Kundry and
Günther Treptow
as Parsifal.
However, the
1950 Roman RAI broadcast (Gui conducting, Maria Callas as Kundry) is in the Pozza
version.
According to what we could find, the 1958 Roman "Parsifal" conducted by Gui and
starring Mödl, Windgassen, and Frick was sung in
Italian (Zanardini version) —
perhaps the last production to be executed
thus.
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