Anon, Society Events By Carole Cusack

https://www.academia.edu/164640618/Anon_Society_Events?email_work_card=title Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney, Carole Cusack delivered an insightful, yet entertaining lecture highlighting the similarities and differences between two of Wagner's most pivotal and medieval chronicles. The Flying Dutchman (1843) and Parsifal (1882) are united by characters who are doomed to wander the earth as penance for unexpurgated sin (a blasphemous oath by the Dutchman, and Kundry's laughter at Christ on the cross). Both are identified with the the Wandering Jew of Christian folklore, who mocked the crucified Jesus and was doomed to deathless wandering. Both are saved by Christ figures; Senta sacrifices herself to break the curse that binds the Dutchman, and Parsifal baptises Kundry, who dies a saved Christian. ...