DVD of the month:
Harry Kupfer's Parsifal production (1992)
Editor's recommendation
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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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Richard Wagner books
Frederic Spotts: Bayreuth - a History of the Wagner Festival
Frederic Spotts: Bayreuth - a History
of the Wagner Festival
Bayreuth:
A History of the Wagner Festival on Amazon
Frederic Spotts has written a very good history of the Wagner Festival
in Bayreuth. This book is a must for everyone interested in Richard Wagner
and the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth.
The book covers everything: the planning, the building of the Festspielhaus,
the festival leaders, the singers, the directors, all the productions.
Bayreuth:
A History of the Wagner Festival on Amazon
Read an interview with another Bayreuth
historian, Penelope Turing. She is the author of the book New
Bayreuth and has seen every production at Bayreuth since 1952.
