Program & Artists

Wagner Selections from Parsifal:
Act I Prelude
Act III Prelude
Good Friday Music
Act III Ending
Artwork from the exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350

Leon Botstein conductor

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Concert Details

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Discussion, on-screen exhibition images, and live musical excerpts
Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now

Intermission
20 min

Richard Wagner Selections from Parsifal
Act I Prelude
13 min
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Act III Prelude
6 min
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Good Friday Music
11 min
Listen

Act III Ending
6 min

Q&A with the audience

All timings are approximate.

Sample the Music

Wagner Parsifal Act I Prelude

Wagner Parsifal Act III Prelude

Wagner Parsifal Good Friday Music

Image: Simone Martini (Italian, Siena, active by 1315–died 1344 Avignon), Madonna and Child (detail), ca. 1326. Tempera on wood, gold ground, Overall 23 1/8 x 15 1/2 in. (58.7 x 39.4 cm); painted surface 22 1/2 x 15 1/8 in. (57.2 x 38.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.12)