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): Georg Solti, Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gerhard Stolze, Hans Hotter, Gustav Neidlinger

Conductor: Georg Solti

Siegfried: Wolfgang Windgassen
Mime: Gerhard Stolze
Brünnhilde: Birgit Nilsson
Wanderer (Wotan): Hans Hotter
Alberich: Gustav Neidlinger
Fafner: Kurt Böhme
Erda: Marga Höffgen
Waldvogel: Joan Sutherland

Wiener Philharmoniker

Recorded in Sofiensaal, Wien, 8 May – 5 November, 1962

Solti's recording of Siegfried on Amazon

The operas in the Solti Ring:

Das Rheingold
Die Walküre
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung

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