The Spirit Of Bayreuth Past

This close of Wagner season finds even we at near the Wagner saturation point for the time being. But we can't resist posting this video with its wraith-like imagery of that incomparable conductor of Parsifal, Hans Knappertsbusch, conducting in his shirtsleeves in Bayreuth's "invisible" sunken pit the so-called "Transformation Music" in a 1959 Bayreuth production of the music-drama. Our thanks to Ms. Mostly Opera for the video which she posted along with several others in her interesting retrospective of the Bayreuther Festspiele covering the years from 1943 to the present.