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
Tickets
- From $35 ($30 + $5 fee)
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Concert Details
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
Listen
Act III Prelude
6 min
Listen
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)