Dramatizes how Parsifal defends the Holy Grail and Spear against the dark magician Klingsor. No burkas and no bikinis - long before Bayreuth's latest Parsifal had opened in Uwe Eric Laufenberg's new reading, these two phrases had done the rounds, their emotive content ensuring that the production was hotly debated. Laufenberg shows us everything: the Grail chalice, the dead swan, the wound, the lance. Such realism in the staging, which above all...