Parsifal

"Parsifal: Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera" by H. R. Haweis recounts the author's experience of seeing a performance of Parsifal in July 1883. The book delves into the ups and downs, the highlights and setbacks he witnessed as an audience member watching one of Wagner's greatest operas. Haweis also offers students and potential audience members an analysis of the story, based on the Middle High German epic poem Parzival, for context.