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Katharina Wagner's Meistersinger released today on DVD

Jorn Utzon dies at 90; Danish architect of Sydney Opera House

Barenboim leads passionate "Tristan" in Met debut

Katharina Wagner survives tragic Autobahn Drama

Patrice Chéreau's Tristan released on DVD

New Walküre in Hamburg

Chaos when Michael von zur Mühlen stages Holländer in Leipzig

Good reviews for Katharina Wagner's Rienzi in Bremen

James Levine's first extensive interview since the cancer operation in July

Interview with Eva-Maria Westbroek on Times Online

Penelope Turing, author of "New Bayreuth" and first time at Bayreuth in 1952 (!), in talk with Wagneropera.net

Herheim Parsifal in Bayreuth: Some thoughts and many reviews

Christian Thielemann Bayreuth Ring on CD

Katharina Wagner interview: Mit der Mutter wäre das nicht möglich gewesen

Anne Evans: "At the time I hadn’t realised what a powerful impact it made."
Wagneropera.net interviews the Brünnhilde in the Barenboim Ring

Meier: "I did not sing Liebestod from the orchestra pit." Wagneropera.net interviews Isolde in Ponnelle's classic Tristan

Recording of the month

DVD of the month

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

Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete, CD): James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Conductor: James Levine

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
The Metropolitan Opera Chorus

James Morris, Siegfried Jerusalem, Wlaschiha, Heinz Zednik, Moll, Ludwig

Hildegard Behrens, Norman, James Morris, Kurt Moll, Lakes, Christa Ludwig

Reiner Goldberg, Heinz Zednik, Hildegard Behrens, James Morris, Wlaschiha, Kurt Moll, Birgitta Svendén, Battle

Götterdämmerung

Hildegard Behrens, Reiner Goldberg, Matti Salminen, Wlaschiha, Bernd Weikl, Cheryl Studer, Hanna Schwarz

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