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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Birgit
Nilsson: La Nilsson (autobiography)
Wonderful autobiography by the greatest dramatic soprano since Kirsten
Flagstad.
Birgit Nilsson writes quite frankly about her friends in the opera world,
her Bayreuth years, her many roles, her favourite conductors.
A lot of anectodes and gossip, refreshingly told the Nilsson way. How
about Wolfgang Wagner letting the air out of the tyres on the car someone
had parked on his parking space? This book is full of that kind of stories.
It is very
interesting to read her derogatory remarks on Pierre Boulez, who conducted
Tristan und Isolde in Osaka (a performance only available on bootleg DVD).
Her impression was that Boulez was not prepared at all for Tristan. She
was not very happy with the fast tempi Boulez chose.
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Amazon for Birgit Nilssons autobiography "La Nilsson"
