Parsifal
Americannoun
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(italics) an opera (composed 1877–82; premiere 1882) by Richard Wagner.
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Teutonic Legend, Arthurian Legend. Percival.
noun
Example Sentences
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She achieves it—and, instead of dropping dead at the end, as usual, lifts the Grail in tandem with Parsifal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
“A lot of European companies have lost ground,” said Parsifal D’Sola, executive director of the Center of Chinese-Latin American Investigations.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2023
The impressionists, too, were entranced: Renoir travelled to Palermo, Sicily, to portray Wagner when he was composing Parsifal.
From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2021
The Long Gravel Road Writer-performer Abbott Alexander updates the myth of Parsifal in this Jungian-themed solo work mixing theater, music and dance.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2019
In his final piece, Parsifal, of 1882, Wagner turned the theatre into a temple, the plot into a sacramental ritual and the leitmotifs he bestowed with sacred power.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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