LONDON, Nov 30: Director Stephen Langridge knows MTV video clips tend to have mass appeal and Wagner operas do not, but he thinks anyone can be moved by his new production of ‘Parsifal’, opening at London’s Covent Garden today night. In the second act, New Zealand tenor Simon O’Neill as Wagner’s ‘pure fool’ of the title must resist the seductive lures of German soprano Angela Denoke’s witch and temptress Kundry. She wraps herself around him and pleads that uniting with her for just one hour ‘would raise you to a godhead’. (agencies)
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