DVD of the month:
Harry Kupfer's Parsifal production (1992)
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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
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Bayreuth - the Early Years (ed.
by Robert Hartford)
Bayreuth:
The Early Years (ed. by Robert Hartford) is
a wonderful eye-witness account of the early years of the Bayreuth Festival
as seen by participants and celebrated visitors.
The book is actually very funny and a must if you are interested in the
Bayreuth Festival.
Here are some of the writers you'll meet in this book:
- Edvard Grieg
- Eduard Hanslick
- Angelo Neumann
- Tchaikovsky
- Felix Weingartner
- Sir George Grove
- Bernard Shaw
- Mark Twain
- Richard Strauss
Bayreuth: The Early Years (Amazon)
