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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

 

Der fliegende Holländer (DVD): Harry Kupfer, Woldemar Nelsson, Simon Estes, Lisbeth Balslev, Matti Salminen, Robert Schunk, Graham Clark, Anny Schlemm

Stage director: Harry Kupfer

Conductor: Woldemar Nelsson

Holländer: Simon Estes
Senta: Lisbeth Balslev
Daland: Matti Salminen
Erik: Robert Schunk
Steuermann: Graham Clark
Mary: Anny Schlemm

Bayreuth Festival, 1985

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"A performance that hauls one into its strikingly vivid and richly imaginative world."
The Times

"One of the most imaginative, fascinating and well-conceived stagings of any opera available."
Mostly Opera

You will find a more traditional approach in the filmed version from 1974

Interview with Lisbeth Balslev about Bayreuth, Senta, Kupfer and Regietheater
(only in Norwegian) on Wagneropera.no

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