Blu-ray of the month

Recording of the month:
Janowski's Meistersinger

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Eva Rieger: Wagner's Women

Important years in Richard Wagner's life

1813 born in Leipzig
1834 Die Feen completed
1843 Holländer premiere
1845 Tannhäuser premiere
1850 Lohengrin premiere
1852 text of Rheingold and Walküre
1854 Das Rheingold completed
1856 Die Walküre completed
1859 Tristan completed
1865 Tristan premiere in Munich
1868 Meistersinger premiere
1869 Das Rheingold premiere
1870 Die Walküre premiere
1871 Siegfried completed
1874 Götterdämmerung completed
1876 First Festival in Bayreuth
1882 Parsifal premiere
1883 Wagner dies in Venice

Wagner Articles and Reviews on Wagneropera.net

Mark Berry sees no evidence of Baumgarten having engaged with the score at all

Klaus Florian Vogt's staggering Lohengrin in Neuenfels's rat experiment

Metropolitan Walküre: Lepage has created a high-tech unit set dubbed the “Machine”

Geoffrey Riggs reviews The Opera Orchestra of New York's concert performance of Rienzi at Avery Fisher Hall

Hans Neuenfels Lohengrin production at Bayreuth brims with a wealth of extraordinary, expressive detail.

Nila Parly asks if there is one truth only about the meaning of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen

Jerry Floyd explores Francesca Zambello's production of Siegfried at Washington National Opera.

Jerry Floyd is impressed with Theorin and Saks in WNO's Concert Performance of Götterdämmerung

The blood of Amfortas is the rejuventating elixir in Claus Guth's Parsifal production in Barcelona.

Herheim seduces us into applauding our own escapism in the spectacular Tannhäuser in Oslo

Eric Owens nearly stole the show in Robert Lepage's production of Das Rheingold at the Met

Tannhäuser at ROH proved a musical triumph thanks to a great cast and Semyon Bychkov’s superior conducting

Mark Berry is not convinced after attending Christof Loy's production of Tristan at Covent Garden for the second time

Stefan Herheim's marvellous Lohengrin at Staatsoper in Berlin.

Tim Albery’s production of The Flying Dutchman: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (2011)

Erling E. Guldbrandsen on Ernst von Pidde: Richard Wagners «Ring des Nibelungen» im Lichte des deutschen Strafrechts

Nila Parly: Visions of the Ring (on Regietheater)

Nila Parly: The Cry of the Valkyrie: Feminism and Corporality in the Copenhagen Ring

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The Lauritz Melchior international Singing Competition 6-13 November 2010

LA Ring: Los Angeles Opera to show 3 complete Ring cycles in May / June 2010

Wagner goes underground in Washington, DC

Norway mourns massacre victims

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