How much physical contact is there between Kundry and Parsifal?
HW: The first is the kiss, and he didn’t even know what it meant because he is the perfect fool. It’s only in his sub-conscious that he knows he has a mission, and therefore he thinks of Amfortas and says there’s something wrong. He must not be kissed by Kundry. He wasn’t taught that but it’s in his sub-conscious. The only other physical contact is the washing of his feet in the third act. Depending on the stage direction, there might be a touch from Kundry to Parsifal when she falls down to his feet, but this would be the director’s idea. BD: Kundry must not caress Parsifal like the flower-maidens do? HW: No, no. She catches him with words, not by physical contact. The flower-maidens are like clinging vines, but not Kundry. She is just a voice and she keeps on talking to him. She talks about his mother and all those things he knows very vaguely, and he gets more and more curious. But she is not tormenting him – only the kiss means real suffering for him, and that is how he thinks of A
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