At Bayreuth a tradition has arisen that audiences do not applaud at the end of the first act. Wagner described Parsifal not as an opera, but as Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel (a sacred festival stage play). The Bayreuth Festival maintained a monopoly on Parsifal productions until 1903, when the opera was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Parsifal was first produced at the second Bayreuth Festival in 1882.
In composing it he took advantage of the particular acoustics of his newly built Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Wagner conceived the work in April 1857, but did not finish it until 25 years later. Wagner's own libretto for the work is freely based on the 13th-century Middle High German chivalric romance Parzival of the Minnesänger Wolfram von Eschenbach and the Old French chivalric romance Perceval ou le Conte du Graal by the 12th-century trouvère Chrétien de Troyes, recounting different accounts of the story of the Arthurian knight Parzival ( Percival) and his spiritual quest for the Holy Grail. Parsifal ( WWV 111) is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition.
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