EXQUISITE BROOCH/PIN DEDICATED TO PARSIFAL BY R. WAGNER, C.1882, RARE! BAYREUTH FESTIVAL
Antique RARE sterling silver brooch or pin representing the Holy Grail with the Holy Spirit over the Holy Lance. The base of the Graal, made in sterling silver, is engraved with the following words: GRAL BAYREUTH. These words are in German languaje, Bayreuth is a town in northen Babaria, where there is a festival (since 1876) dedicated exclusively to the famous German composer Richard WAGNER. This exquisite brooch was made especially for the opera PARSIFAL in the Bayreuth festival. The stem of the Graal is beautifully decorated with three (3) tiny cabochon stones, two of them are blue color and the central one is red. All the stones ae bezel- set. About the Holy Lance, its spearhead is yellow gold filled.
PARSIFAL is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. 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. Wagner conceived the work in April 1857, but did not finish it until 25 years later. In composing it he took advantage of the particular acoustics of his newly built Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Parsifal was first produced at the second Bayreuth Festival in 1882. The Bayreuth Festival maintained a monopoly on Parsifal productions until 1903, when the opera was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Wagner described Parsifal not as an opera, but as Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel (a sacred festival stage play). At Bayreuth a tradition has arisen that audiences do not applaud at the end of the first act. The autograph manuscript of the work is preserved in the Richard Wagner Foundation.
Please refer to the detailed pictures, they speak by themselves :)
WEIGHT : 3.37grMEASURES: 39 X 24mm
ESTIMATED AGE: circa 1882
GENERAL CONDITION: very good+/excellent general condition, please refer to the pictures.