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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): Janowski, Siegfried Jerusalem, Jessye Norman,
Jeannine Altmeyer, Kurt Moll, Theo Adam, Wenkel
Conductor: Marek Janowski
Siegmund: Siegfried Jerusalem
Sieglinde: Jessye Norman
Wotan: Theo Adam
Brünnhilde: Jeannine Altmeyer
Hunding: Kurt Moll
Fricka: Yvonne Minton
Gerhilde: Eva-Maria Bundschuh
Ortlinde: Cheryl Studer
Waltraute: Ortrun Wenkel
Schwertleite: Anne Gjevang
Helmwige: Ruth Falcon
Siegrune: Christel Borchers
Grimgerde: Kathleen Kuhlmann
Rossweisse: Uta Priew
Staatskapelle Dresden
Recorded 22-29 August, 1981
Janowski's
recording of Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete) on Amazon
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