With its first performance just months before Wagner鈥檚 death, it is no surprise that this story of salvation and redemption has received much intellectual enquiry as an allegory for Wagner鈥檚 own life, and death. Although he did not believe himself religious, Wagner chose to make his last work a sacred work for the stage (which he did not consider to be an 鈥榦pera鈥�), which is fundamentally based in Christian ideology. He presents a vast work which depicts the battle between good and evil, sin and purity, temptation and chastity, death and immortality through the salvation of one man: Parsifal.
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