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Blu-ray of the month

 


Recording of the month:
Janowski's Meistersinger

 

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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

 

Richard Wagner books

Patrick Carnegy: Wagner and the Art of the Theatre

Nicholas Vazsonyi: Richard Wagner: Self-Promotion and the Making of a Brand

Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth

Oliver Hilmes Cosima Wagner Biography

Oliver Hilmes: Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth
Review by Jerry Floyd

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Frederic Spotts: Bayreuth - a History of the Wagner Festival

Ring in Bayreuth

Philippe Olivier: Der Ring des Nibelungen in Bayreuth: Von den Anfängen bis heute

Eva Rieger: Richard Wagner's Women

Vocal Victories: Wagner's Female Characters from Senta to Kundry

Ernest Newman: The Wagner Operas

The Grove Book of Opera Singers

Wagner's Eternal Ring - The Complete Otto Schenk / James Levine Production at The Metropolitan Opera (Nancy Ellison)

Daniel Barenboim: A Life in Music (autobiography)

 

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Bayreuth - the Early Years (ed. by Robert Hartford)

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Tristanissimo: The Authorized Biography of Heroic Tenor Lauritz Melchior

Penelope Turing: New Bayreuth

Penelope Turing:
New Bayreuth

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The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas (Barry Millington)

Wagner Tuba

William Melton: The Wagner Tuba

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Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation (Ed. by Nicholas Vazsonyi)

Bayreuth Backstage Nawrath

Enrico Nawrath explores the world backstage at Bayreuth

Birgit Nilsson: La Nilsson. My Life in Opera (autobiography)

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Heinz Zednik: Mein Opernleben

Wagner's Ring in 1848 – New Translations of The Nibelung Myth & Siegfried's Death. By Edward R. Haymes

Wagner's Ring in 1848 – New Translations of The Nibelung Myth & Siegfried's Death. By Edward R. Haymes

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Mark Berry: Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s ‘Ring’

Hannu Salmi: Wagner and Wagnerism in Ninetinth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces

Christa Ludwig

Christa Ludwig: In My Own Voice

 

Simon Estes autobiography

Simon Estes: In My Own Voice

 

 

 

     
     
     
     
     

 

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