What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani discusses Klingsor, the magician of Wagner's Parsifal, mainly in the 2022 and 2024 sessions devoted to Perceval and the quest for the Grail. He returns several times to his story: this knight, unable to silence his libido, castrated himself; driven out of the Grail community, he turns the desert into a garden of flower-maidens to seduce the knights1. He sees in him a reminder of the fallen angel2. Having castrated himself, Klingsor was never able to extinguish his desire and resents the Grail, which is its expression. He wants to put out its light with his army of shadows3. He stole the spear and wounded Amfortas. Dominique Pagani describes him as Kundry's pimp, who holds her under his spell, sees everything in his magic mirror and fears "the one protected by the shield of foolishness"4. He also notes that this diabolical figure shows a strange sensitivity to Parsifal's beauty and, like other negative characters, moments of tenderness5.
- 1L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 30:35
- 2De la fidélité à la grâce - De la substance au Sujet30 May 2024 · 6:35
- 3La matrice de toute illusion : le passé vécu comme présent4 Jun 2024 · 49:06
- 4La matrice de toute illusion : le passé vécu comme présent4 Jun 2024 · 42:02
- 5La quête du Graal, bondieuserie ou sacrilège ?1 Apr 2024 · 1:47:16
Summary produced automatically from 13 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Season 12 · 4 Jun 2024The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present- 42:02Kundry's pimp, he sees everything in his magic mirror and dreads the one protected by the shield of idiocy.
- 49:06Voluntarily castrated, he could never extinguish his desire and resents the Grail, which is its expression.
- 1:11:27Like the negative characters, he has moments of tenderness at the laughing child.
Season 12 · 30 May 2024From fidelity to grace - From substance to Subject- 6:35A sorcerer who castrated himself, cast out of the community, he took the spear and wounded Amfortas; a memory of the fallen angel.
- 13:14He turned the desert into a garden of sorcery and wants to extinguish the Grail with his army of shadows.
- 1:31:57He opens the second act with "Die Zeit ist da" and announces the one protected by the shield of foolishness.
Season 11 · 12 Dec 2022Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval- 30:35A knight unable to silence his libido, he castrated himself; driven away, he turns the desert into the garden of the flower maidens.
- 1:10:19He bewitches Kundry like a pimp and dreads "him whom the shield of foolishness protects."
Season 12 · 21 Apr 2024Saving the saviour? Redemption - the end of the cycle or its new beginning?- 16:22Castrated knight, banished from the Grail, who turns the desert into the garden of flower-maidens to extinguish the light of the Grail.
- 37:54He steals the spear and wounds Amfortas.
Season 12 · 1 Apr 2024The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?- 52:52The knight who castrated himself, cast out like the fallen angel, who turns the desert into a garden of sorceries.
- 1:47:16The devil nevertheless shows a strange sensitivity before Parsifal's beauty.
Series · 7 Feb 2021Musicosophy 14. Mozart once more- 1:47:51Magician who makes the flower-maidens grow to seduce the knights of the Grail.