If you had to choose an opera for our times, it would be Richard Wagner's Parsifal, said British philosopher Roger Scruton.The evening will be hosted by Julius Grickevičius, one of the best experts on the music and a great storyteller.

In 1882, Parsifal was presented at a festival dedicated to the works of Wagner in Bayreuth, but it was an idea that had been born as early as 1857, when the author was obsessed with revolutionary ideas and pre-Christian Scandinavian myths. It seems that it was only towards the end of his life that Wagner devoted himself to this profound work. 

By borrowing sacred Christian rituals and turning Buddhist morality into the tools of his work, Wagner searches for a Saviour of salvation, without explicitly mentioning who exactly he is.

 During the course of this evening we will listen to extracts from this recording: René Kollo, Gottlob Frick, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christa Ludwig, Zoltan Kélémen, Hans Hotter, Vienna Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti - Parsifal. Decca, 1973