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): Georg Solti, Birgit Nilsson, James King, Régine Crespin,
Hans Hotter, Christa Ludwig, Gottlob Frick
Conductor: Georg Solti
Siegmund: James King
Sieglinde: Régine Crespin
Wotan: Hans Hotter
Brünnhilde: Birgit Nilsson
Hunding: Gottlob Frick
Fricka: Christa Ludwig
Gerhilde: Vera Schlosser
Ortlinde: Helga Dernesch
Waltraute: Brigitte Fassbaender
Schwertleite: Helen Watts
Helmwige: Berit Lindholm
Siegrune: Vera Little
Grimgerde: Marilyn Tyler
Rossweisse: Claudia Hellmann
Recorded in Sofiensaal, Wien, 29 October – 19 November, 1965
Georg Solti's recording of Die Walküre on Amazon
The operas in the Solti Ring:
Das Rheingold
Die Walküre
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung
