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Blu-ray of the month

 


Recording of the month:
Janowski's Meistersinger

 

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Eva Rieger: Wagner's Women

 


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): Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Jordan, Schöne, Tschammer, Lloyd, Goldberg, Haugland, Minton

coverStage director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Conductor: Armin Jordan

Amfortas Wolfgang Schöne
Titurel Hans Tschammer
Gurnemanz Robert Lloyd
Parsifal Reiner Goldberg
Klingsor Aage Haugland
Kundry Yvonne Minton
Altsolo Gertrud Oertel
Gralsritter Paul Frey
Gralsritter Gilles Cachemaille
Knappe Tamara Herz
Knappe Hanna Schaer
Knappe Christer Bladin
Knappe Michael Roider
Blume Britt-Marie Aruhn
Blume Jocelyne Chamonin
Blume Eva Saurova
Blume Tamara Herz
Blume Hanna Schaer
Blume Gertrud Oertel

Syberberg's experimental film version of Parsifal on DVD

Syberberg used actors to play most of the roles: Armin Jordan (the conductor!) (Amfortas), Martin Sperr (Tirurel), Michael Kutter (Parsifal 1), Karen Krick (Parsifal 2), Edith Clever (Kundry)

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Prague Philharmonic Chorus

Sets: Werner Achman
Costumes: Veronicka Dorn & Hella Walter

Filmed in 1981

Syberberg's experimental film version of Parsifal on DVD

 

Norway mourns massacre victims

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