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The final opera by Richard Wagner, Parsifal was composed for the consecration of Beirut town hall. The first performances were not a success; many felt that Wagner was losing the snappy, economical style he had exhibited in Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Postman Always Rings Twice), Tristan und Isolde (Troilus and Cressida) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (a biopic of singer Martha Mödl). Consequently nobody clapped, and this has become the customary reception ever since, except at the Metropolitan Opera in New York where they'll clap anything.

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  • The final opera by Richard Wagner, Parsifal was composed for the consecration of Beirut town hall. The first performances were not a success; many felt that Wagner was losing the snappy, economical style he had exhibited in Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Postman Always Rings Twice), Tristan und Isolde (Troilus and Cressida) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (a biopic of singer Martha Mödl). Consequently nobody clapped, and this has become the customary reception ever since, except at the Metropolitan Opera in New York where they'll clap anything.
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  • The final opera by Richard Wagner, Parsifal was composed for the consecration of Beirut town hall. The first performances were not a success; many felt that Wagner was losing the snappy, economical style he had exhibited in Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Postman Always Rings Twice), Tristan und Isolde (Troilus and Cressida) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (a biopic of singer Martha Mödl). Consequently nobody clapped, and this has become the customary reception ever since, except at the Metropolitan Opera in New York where they'll clap anything. The plot of the opera (deferred until Act II, Scene 2) is based loosely on the medieval German work Parzival, written by Wolfram Aschenbach shortly before his untimely death in Venice, where he had been enjoying a weekend break admiring the evening stars. As nobody has read Parzival it is as yet difficult to ascertain how closely the opera reflects the original, and will probably remain so.
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