DVD of the month:
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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Die Walküre (CD): Wilhelm Furtwängler (1953) , Wolfgang Windgassen, Hilde Konetzni, Ferdinand Frantz, Martha Mödl, Gottlob Frick, Elsa Cavelti
Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
Siegmund Wolfgang Windgassen
Sieglinde Hilde Konetzni
Wotan Ferdinand Frantz
Brünnhilde Martha Mödl
Hunding Gottlob Frick
Fricka Elsa Cavelti
Gerhilde Gerda Scheyrer
Ortlinde Magda Gabory
Waltraute Dagmar Schmedes
Schwertleite Hilde Rössel-Majdan
Helmwige Judith Hellwig
Siegrune Olga Bennings
Grimgerde Elsa Cavelti
Rossweisse Ira Malaniuk
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di
Roma della RAI
Der Ring des Nibelungen (Studio recording in mono,
1953)
Furtwängler 1953 Ring on Amazon
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