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DVD of the month

The Copenhagen Ring - winner of The Gramophone Award 2009 (DVD)

Recording of the month

Kirsten Flagstad: Volume 1, The Early Recordings 1914-1941

 


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

 

Das Rheingold on DVD

Patrice Chéreau / Pierre Boulez (Bayreuth, 1980)

Donald McIntyre, Martin Egel, Siegfried Jerusalem, Heinz Zednik, Hermann Becht, Helmut Pampuch, Matti Salminen, Fritz Hübner, Hanna Schwarz, Carmen Reppel, Ortrun Wenkel
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Harry Kupfer / Daniel Barenboim (Bayreuth Festival, 1991)

John Tomlinson, Bodo Brinkmann, Kurt Schreibmayer, Graham Clark, Günter von Kannen, Helmut Pampuch, Matthias Hölle, Philip Kang, Linda Finnie, Eva Johansson, Birgitta Svendén
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Joachim Schlömer / Lothar Zagrosek Stuttgart Ring

Wolfgang Probst, Robert Künzli, Esa Ruuttunen, Roland Bracht, Phillip Ens, Michaela Schuster, Helga Rós Indridadóttir, Eberhard Francesco Lorenz
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Harry Kupfer / Bertrand de Billy.
Barcelona Ring, 2005

Falk Struckmann, Wolfgang Rauch, Jeffrey Dowd, Lioba Braun, Elisabete Matos, Günter von Kannen, Francisco Vas, Kwanchul Youn, Eric Halfvarson, Andrea Bönig
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Pierre Audi, Hartmut Haenchen
Amsterdam Ring, 1999

Graham Clark, John Bröcheler, Henk Smit, Reinhild Runkel, Anne Gjevang
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Otto Schenk / James Levine. Metropolitan Opera House, 1990

James Morris, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Heinz Zednik, Siegfried Jerusalem, Christa Ludwig
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The Weimar Ring: St. Clair / Michael Schulz

weimar ring

Mario Hoff, Erin Caves, Frieder Aurich
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La Fura Dels Baus, Valencia Ring

Valencia Ring

Zubin Mehta, Juha Uusitalo
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