Summary: Concluding this series, we look back at the work of American baritone Clarence Whitehill, who excelled in Wagnerian roles, and performed at the Bayreuth Festival in 1904. The program also features some of the best Wagner conductors on the scene today. We highlight musical excerpts from Donald Runnicles at the Vienna State Opera, Valery Gergiev at the MET, and Pierre Boulez leading the 2004 controversial staging of Parsifal from the enfant terrible of German art, Christoph Schlingensief.
