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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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Götterdämmerung (CD): Mark Elder, Katarina Dalayman, Lars Cleveman, Andrew Shore, Attila Jun, Nancy Gustafson

Conductor Mark Elder

Brünnhilde Katarina Dalayman
Siegfried Lars Cleveman
Hagen Attila Jun
Alberich Andrew Shore
Gunther Peter Coleman-Wright
Gutrune Nancy Gustafson
Waltraute Susan Bickley
Rhinemaidens Katherine Broderick, Madeleine Shaw, Leah‑Marian Jones
Norns Miranda Keys, Yvonne Howard, Ceri Williams

Hallé Choir; BBC Symphony Chorus; London Symphony Chorus; Royal Opera Chorus and Extra Chorus
Hallé Orchestra

Recorded live on 9/10 May 2009 in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

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Mark Elder, Wagner Götterdämmerung, Hallé Orchestra"The whole is topped by a serious and quite dark pair from Sweden. Lars Cleveman is a thinking, tragic Siegfried, well matching his conductor’s conception of the work. His Brünnhilde, Katarina Dalayman, brings a good mixture of soprano and mezzo colours to the role, by turns steely and strong, or touchingly vulnerable. Her Immolation is unusually visionary and clear-sighted. [...] The most compelling and best-cast Götterdämmerung on disc since Barenboim’s from Bayreuth"
Mike Ashman in Gramophone

 

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