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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

Schlingensief and Flimm supports the election of the Wagner half-sisters

Katharina and Eva are new Festival leaders

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

Siegfried (CD): Boulez, Jung, Zednik, Jones, McIntyre, Becht, Hübner, Wenkel, Sharp

Conductor: Pierre Boulez

Siegfried: Manfred Jung
Mime: Heinz Zednik
Brünnhilde: Gwyneth Jones
Wanderer (Wotan): Donald McIntyre
Alberich: Hermann Becht
Fafner: Fritz Hübner
Erda: Ortrun Wenkel
Waldvogel: Norma Sharp

Der Ring des Nibelungen: 2. Tag

Festspielhaus Bayreuth
Recorded in 1980
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele

The Boulez/Chereau Ring on Amazon

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