A young man ignorant of everything, including his own name, arrives at the Kingdom of the Holy Grail. Is he the ‘pure fool, enlightened by compassion’, who, it has been prophesied, will purify the realm? OperaVision is live from Bergen for a concert staging of Parsifal, Richard Wagner’s final music drama which is unlike anything that went before or has come since. It can feel more like a ritual ceremony than an opera – grand yet intimate, somehow occupying its own space and time. At the heart of Parsifal is a curious, magical treatment of the symphony orchestra that appears to give the voices above it all the space and autonomy they need.

Discover Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, conducted by Christian Thielemann and directed by Jan Philipp Gloger at the 2013 Bayreuth Festival.

Daphne is based on the Greek myth of the nymph and her transformation into a laurel tree to escape the god Apollo.