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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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Das Rheingold (CD): Wolfgang Sawallisch, Robert
Hale, Kurt Moll, Robert Tear, Helmut Pampuch
Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wotan Robert Hale
Donner Florian Cerny
Froh Josef Hopferwieser
Loge Robert Tear
Alberich Ekkehard Wlaschiha
Mime Helmut Pampuch
Fasolt Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Fafner Kurt Moll
Fricka Marjana Lipovsek
Freia Nancy Gustafson
Erda Hanna Schwarz
Woglinde Julie Kaufmann
Wellgunde Angela Maria Blasi
Flosshilde Birgit Calm
Das Rheingold is the first part of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen
Live recording.
Recorded in 1989
Chor und Orchester der Bayerische Staatsoper, München
Introduction page
to Wolfgang Sawallisch's recording of the Ring
The
Complete Sawallisch live Ring is available on CD
