About this episode

Adrian and Moira discuss Richard Wagner's final opera, Parsifal, exploring its themes and connections to philosophy and culture.

This week, Adrian and Moira are both traveling -- Adrian is finishing work on the newly titled Project 1933: Fascism Then and Now (available for preorder now ). So, back by popular (?) demand (?), it's another Richard Wagner-focused episode of In Bed with the Right . Wagner's final opera, 1882's Parsifal , draws on the grail legends, various philosophers, Wagner's own aging process, and whatever the 19th century version of Buddhism for Dummies was. Come for the male suffering, stay for the syphilis-metaphors, the Best Little Whorehouse in Grailland, and the final split in the bromance known as Nietzgner (probably? We're talking about Nietzsche and Wagner).

People in this episode

Hosts: Adrian Daub, Moira Donegan

Topics covered

• Richard Wagner
• Parsifal
• opera
• philosophy
• 19th century
• male suffering

Keywords

• Wagner
• Parsifal
• opera
• Nietzsche
• 19th century
• grail legends
• male suffering
• syphilis-metaphors

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Richard Wagner's Parsifal

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