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DVD of the month

The Copenhagen Ring - winner of The Gramophone Award 2009 (DVD)

Recording of the month

Kirsten Flagstad: Volume 1, The Early Recordings 1914-1941

 


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

Elming Melchior

The Lauritz Melchior international Singing Competition 6-13 November 2010

roh tristan

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

Per-Erik Skramstad tries to understand Stefan Herheim's marvellous Lohengrin at Staatsoper in Berlin.

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

Dawn Southwick reviews Achim Freyer's production of Das Rheingold at Los Angeles Opera.

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

 

theorin

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

 
     

 

Pidde

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

stuttgart siegfried

Nila Parly: Visions of the Ring (on Regietheater)

ring cover

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

 

 

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