DVD of the month

David Alden's production of Tannhäuser at Bayerische Staatsoper, München

Recording of the month

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

Frederic Spotts: Bayreuth - a History of the Wagner Festival

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

Enrico Nawrath explores the world backstage at Bayreuth

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

Penelope Turing:
New Bayreuth

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

William Melton: The Wagner Tuba

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

Heinz Zednik: Mein Opernleben

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

Christa Ludwig: In My Own Voice

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

Tristanissimo: The Authorized Biography of Heroic Tenor Lauritz Melchior

Mark Berry: Treacherous bonds and laughing fire: politics and religion in Wagner’s ‘Ring’

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

Simon Estes: In My Own Voice

Daniel Barenboim: A Life in Music (autobiography)

Wagner's music used in films

Richard Wagner DVDs on Amazon

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