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Blu-ray of the month

 


Recording of the month:
Janowski's Meistersinger

 

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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

 

Tannhäuser on CD

Daniel Barenboim / Staatskapelle Berlin

cover tannhauser

Waltraud Meier, Peter Seiffert, Jane Eaglen, Thomas Hampson, René Pape
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Georg Solti / Wiener Philharmoniker

solti tannhauser

René Kollo, Helga Dernesch, Christa Ludwig, Hans Sotin, Victor Braun
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Giuseppe Sinopoli / Philharmonia Orch.

Matti Salminen, Plácido Domingo, Andreas Schmidt, Kurt Rydl, Oskar Hillebrant, Cheryl Studer, Agnes Baltsa, Barbara Bonney
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Franz Konwitschny / Staatskapelle Berlin

cover

Gottlob Frick, Hans Hopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Fritz Wunderlich, Gerhard Unger, Elisabeth Grümmer, Marianne Schech
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Karl Elmendorff / Bayreuth Festival

elmendorff

Ivar F. Andresen, Sigismund Pilinszky, Maria Müller, Ruth Jost-Arden
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