Listening to Parsifal: Contexts, Sources, and Open Questions, Part 4: “When Europe Lost Its Soul – and Wagner Tried to Give it Back” – In-Person Event
Wed 18 Nov · Swedenborg Hall
Hosted by The Wagner Society
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18 November | Swedenborg Hall | £5.00 – £20.00 Wednesday 18th November, 7pm for 7:30pm at the Swedenborg Hall “When Europe Lost Its Soul – and Wagner Tried to Give it Back”, Part 4 of the series with Dr Thomas Launius: “Listening to Parsifal: Contexts, Sources, and Open Questions” The nineteenth century witnessed the collapse of the sacred framework that had held European civilization together for a millennium. For artists and intellectuals who could neither sustain traditional belief nor bear its absence, the result was a civilizational crisis.