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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 Meistersinger von Nürnberg (DVD, 1984): Wolfgang Wagner, Horst Stein, Weikl, Prey, Jerusalem, Clark, Häggander

Meistersinger 1984 coverConductor: Horst Stein

Hans Sachs Bernd Weikl
Veit Pogner Manfred Schenk
Kunz Vogelgesang András Molnár
Konrad Nachtigall Martin Egel
Sixtus Beckmesser Hermann Prey
Fritz Kothner Jef Vermeersch
Balthasar Zorn Udo Holdorf
Ulrich Eisslinger Peter Maus
Augustin Moser Helmut Pampuch
Hermann Ortel Sándor Sólyom-Nagy
Hans Schwartz Heinz Klaus Ecker
Hans Foltz Dieter Schweikart
Walther von Stolzing Siegfried Jerusalem
David Graham Clark (see interview here)
Eva Mari Anne Häggander
Magdalene Marga Schiml
Ein Nachtwächter Matthias Hölle

Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele
Sonderchor der Bayreuther Festspiele
Chorus master: Norbert Balatsch

Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele

Wolfgang Wagner, stage director, set design
Reinhard Heinrich, costume design

Video director: Brian Large

Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 18-29 June 1984

Picture format: 4:3

Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish
Booklet notes: English, German, French
Running time: 267 mins
No. of DVDs: 2 (DVD 9)

Wolfgang Wagner's production of Meistersinger (1984) on Amazon

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg on CD
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg on DVD

See also

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
The Bayreuth Festival

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