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Katharina Wagner's Meistersinger released today on DVD

Jorn Utzon dies at 90; Danish architect of Sydney Opera House

Barenboim leads passionate "Tristan" in Met debut

Katharina Wagner survives tragic Autobahn Drama

Patrice Chéreau's Tristan released on DVD

New Walküre in Hamburg

Chaos when Michael von zur Mühlen stages Holländer in Leipzig

Good reviews for Katharina Wagner's Rienzi in Bremen

James Levine's first extensive interview since the cancer operation in July

Interview with Eva-Maria Westbroek on Times Online

Penelope Turing, author of "New Bayreuth" and first time at Bayreuth in 1952 (!), in talk with Wagneropera.net

Herheim Parsifal in Bayreuth: Some thoughts and many reviews

Christian Thielemann Bayreuth Ring on CD

Katharina Wagner interview: Mit der Mutter wäre das nicht möglich gewesen

Anne Evans: "At the time I hadn’t realised what a powerful impact it made."
Wagneropera.net interviews the Brünnhilde in the Barenboim Ring

Meier: "I did not sing Liebestod from the orchestra pit." Wagneropera.net interviews Isolde in Ponnelle's classic Tristan

Recording of the month

DVD of the month

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

Parsifal (DVD): Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Kent Nagano, Waltraud Meier, Christopher Ventris, Matti Salminen, Tom Fox, Thomas Hampson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

Stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff

Conductor Kent Nagano

Kundry Waltraud Meier
Parsifal Christopher Ventris
Gurnemanz Matti Salminen
Klingsor Tom Fox
Amfortas Thomas Hampson
Titurel Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

Recorded live at the Baden-Baden Festival House in August 2004

Bonus: PARSIFAL’S PROGRESS – 60 minute documentary analysis including interviews with Kent Nagano, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Christopher Ventris, Waltraud Meier and many others.

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Reviews

Mostly Opera
MusicWeb
Vincent Vargas
Ken Hoover

Other Wagner productions by Nikolaus Lehnhoff on DVD

Lohengrin (Baden-Baden)
Tristan und Isolde (Glyndebourne)

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