THE STORY OF PARSIFAL

Director - Matiass Hartmans

The image of Parsifal has occupied the minds of poets, writers and artists from different cultures throughout the ages. The story of Parsifal is the story of man's journey to the Holy Grail, man's journey to himself.
A mother has brought up her son in the forest, alone, separated from people. So that he would not become evil. But when he enters the human world and follows only his instincts, he inevitably becomes evil. Because he has not learned compassion. He has not learnt and opened his humanity. Parsifal will be accompanied on his journey to humanisation and his search for the Holy Grail by the draughtsman Vilis Daudziņš and the actors of the New Riga Theatre.

German director Matthias Hartmann has explored the medieval novels in verse about Parsifal and the Holy Grail, Richard Wagner's testament to humanity – the opera “Parsifal”, the screenplay by the visionary American director Robert Wilson, under the artistic editorship of Tancred Dorst, and, most recently, the magnificent thousand-page novel “The Red Knight. The Story of Parsifal" by the Swiss writer Adolf Muschg. And wrote his own "The Story of Parsifal".

Matthias Hartmann has directed productions at leading theatres in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as operas at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Florence, Paris, Zurich and Geneva. He has been artistic director of the Bochum Schauspielhaus, the Zurich Schauspielhaus and the Burgtheater in Vienna. In 2024, Matthias Hartmann published “Why the Gun Doesn't Fire on Stage”, a book about the crisis in contemporary theatre and its causes.

Venue: the Big Stage Lāčplēša street 25.
Prices: 25,00 EUR; 30,00 EUR; 35,00 EUR; 40,00 EUR, 50,00 EUR.
Premiere on April 25, 2025.