DVD of the month:
Harry Kupfer's Parsifal production (1992)
Editor's recommendation
The eCollegeFinder Top 75 Music & Arts Enthusiasts award recognizes the websites that best represent the voice of music and arts in both culture and education.
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
Get Wagneropera.net's YouTube Channel FREE on your mobile phone (you will need a QR reader installed)
Lohengrin (CD): Joseph Keilberth, Wolfgang Windgassen, Josef Greindl, Eleanor Steber, Hermann Uhde, Astrid Varnay
König Heinrich Josef Greindl
Lohengrin Wolfgang Windgassen
Elsa Eleanor Steber
Telramund Hermann Uhde
Ortrud Astrid Varnay
Der Heerrufer Hans Braun
Ein Edle Gerhard Stolze
Ein Edle Josef Janko
Ein Edle Alfons Herwig
Ein Edle Theo Adam
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
Recorded July/August, 1953
This was Wolfgang Wagner's debut at Bayreuth. During the war he had produced his father Siegfried Wagner's opera Schwarzschwanenreich in Berlin, 1944.
Not available in the United States due to possible copyright restrictions
Conductor Joseph Keilberth