Publisher's Synopsis
Traditionally Wagnerian scholarship has always treated the ÊRingÊ and ÊParsifalÊ as two separate works. ÊThe Redeemer Reborn: Parsifal as the Fifth Opera of Wagner's RingÊ shows how ÊParsifalÊ is in fact actually the fifth opera of the ÊRingÊ. Schofield explains in detail how these five musical dramas portray a single unbroken story which begins at the start of ÊDas RheingoldÊ when Wotan breaks a branch from the World Ash-tree and Alberich steals the gold of the Rhine thus separating Spear and Grail and ends with the reunion of the Spear and Grail in the temple of Monsalvat at the end of ÊParsifalÊ. Schofield explains how and why the four main characters of the ÊRingÊ are reborn in the opera ÊParsifalÊ needing to complete in ÊParsifalÊ the spiritual journey begun in the ÊRingÊ. He also shows how the redemption that is not attained in the process of the ÊRingÊ is finally realized in the events of ÊParsifalÊ.
