DVD of the month:
Harry Kupfer's Parsifal production (1992)
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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
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Das Rheingold (CD): Wilhelm Furtwängler (1953), Ferdinand Frantz, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gustav Neidlinger, Josef Greindl, Gottlob Frick, Elisabeth Grümmer
Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
Studio recording in mono
1953
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di
Roma della RAI
Wotan Ferdinand Frantz
Donner Alfred Poell
Froh Lorenz Fehenberger
Loge Wolfgang Windgassen
Alberich Gustav Neidlinger
Mime Julius Patzak
Fasolt Josef Greindl
Fafner Gottlob Frick
Fricka Ira Malaniuk
Freia Elisabeth Grümmer
Erda Ruth Siewert
Woglinde Sena Jurinac
Wellgunde Magda Gabory
Flosshilde Hilde Rössel-Majdan
Furtwängler 1953 Ring on Amazon
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