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Harry Kupfer's Parsifal production (1992)

 

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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

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The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra / Das Bayreuther Festspielorchester

The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra consists of members from many orchestras, mostly German. These musicians are highly motivated, and use their holiday to perform Wagner's music dramas.

 

Most of the orchestra member come from these orchestras:

Bamberger Symphoniker – Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie
College of Music
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Duisburger Philharmoniker
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
Frankfurter Museumsorchester
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden
Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg/Augsburg

Interviews with Bayreuth Festival singers

Graham Clark

Johanna Meier

Anne Evans

Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Frankfurt
hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt
Konzerthausorchester Berlin
Münchner Philharmoniker
Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim
NDR Radio-Philharmonie Hannover
NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg
Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin
Orchester des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz München
Orchestre de Paris
Philharmonisches Orchester der Staatstheater Mainz
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf
Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Stuttgarter Philharmoniker
Staatskapelle Berlin
Staatskapelle Weimar
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz Ludwigshafen
Staatstheater Nürnberg
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks München
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Württembergisches Staatsorchester Stuttgart

 

Literature

Alfred Sous: Das Bayreuther Festspielorchester

 

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