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Harry Kupfer's Parsifal production (1992)
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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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Wagner's Ring Motifs - An Audio Guide
Some listeners may find that the title of this audio guide is a little misleading. Especially those acquainted with Deryck Cooke's superb An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen. Those expecting another introduction like Cooke's will be disappointed.
Although a lot of the leitmotifs are mentioned in this audio guide, Wagner's Ring Motifs is far from a competitor to Deryck Cooke's guide. A walk-through would be a more adequate description of what this CD set is. As a help for preparing the newcomer to Wagner's Ring, this set is very good.
The leitmotifs are produced in a 12 page booklet.
The authors are Sven Friedrich and Gerhard K. Englert. The narrator is John Tomlinson.
Available in English on Amazon.de
A German edition is also available. More information at
Auricula.de
